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Young Folks’ 
Directory 

LISTS OF THE BEST BOOKS, 
TOYS, STORIES AND PICTURES 



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Young Folks’ Directory 

LISTS OF THE BEST BOOKS, 

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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHILD LIFE 

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INTRODUCTION 


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In this directory of purposeful equipment for children and 
young people, the Institute believes that it has performed a very 
important service to the home and the child. Information and 
advice are given as to what are the best books, character-building 
stories, playthings and pictures for children and young people of 
every age, and where to obtain them. 

Lists furnished by public libraries usually do not contain 
descriptions of the books, and it is, therefore, not possible to know 
o anything more about them than may be inferred from their titles 
and authors. 

The second section of the book comprises an impartial, graded 
and annotated list of educative toys and games—showing which 
of the bewildering offerings of the shops are really worth while, 
and bringing the home that does not have access to the great 
stores into touch with their best playthings. 

The list of character-making stories is the first ever compiled. 
The value of having available a pertinent illustration or a happy 
tale as an antidote for children's common faults has already 
been found inestimable by those mothers who have used the* 
first edition of this list. 

The list of pictures that are good for children to live with is 
of peculiar value, because it consists chiefly of what is not trite 
and entirely of good pictures that children like rather than of 
what adults think they ought to like. 

Any book or story mentioned in this booklet will be freely 
loaned to any household that is a member of the Institute. The 
Institute is glad to purchase for parents any of the books, play¬ 
things or pictures here named. They are nearly all, as the reader 
will notice, inexpensive. 



CONTENTS 


Page 


List of the Best Books for Children and Young People 5 

For Young Children. 7 

For School Children. 27 

For Young People of High School Age . 87 

List of the Best Playthings and Games for Children 

and Young People. 129 

For Young Children. 133 

For School Children. 143 

For Young People of High School Age. 167 

List of the Best Stories to Tell to Children. 171 

List of the Best Pictures for Children and Young 

People.. 185 











Part One 

Books for Children and Young People 


LIST OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 
AND YOUNG PEOPLE 

SPECIAL CONTENTS OF PART ONE 

Books for Little Children 

Picture Books . 7 

Play . 18 

Seeing and Doing. 20 

Music. 24 

Books for School Children 

Play, Recreation and Athletics. 27 

Nature and Animal Life. 38 

Travel and Adventure. 45 

Home-Making . 47 

Handicraft . 48 

Fiction . 31 

Poetry. 77 

Biography. 79 

Art and Music.82 

Business. 85 

Life Problems . 86 

Books for Young People of High School Age 

Play, Recreation and Athletics. 87 

Nature and Animal Life. 89 

Travel and Adventure. 93 

Home-Making . 95 

Science and Handicraft. 97 

Fiction . 99 

Poetry .110 

Biography .112 

Art and Music.118 

Vocation and Business. 120 

Life Problems... 124 




























BOOKS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN 

PICTURE STORY BOOKS 

“How glad am I to sing your praise, 

Happy chimney-corner days, 

Sitting safe in nursery nooks, 

Reading picture story-books!” 

—Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Charles Eliot Norton said: '‘In the early years nothing is 
better than the rhymes and jingles which have sung themselves, 
generation after generation, in the nursery or on the playground. 
The next step is easy to short stories that have been told since the 
world was young; fables in which teachings of long experience 
are embodied; legends and fairy tales which form the traditional 
common stock of fairies and sentiments of the race.” 

This has been the thought in mind in selecting the following 
list of first books for little ones. More particularly, the following 
points have been held as to the positive attributes which should 
belong to picture books. 

(1) Children are interested in other children. 

(a) In children at play. 

(b) In children at work. 

(c) In children at home. 

(d) In children out of doors. 

(e) In children of other lands. 

(f) In children of quaint dress. 

(g) In children of olden times. 

In Animals. 

(a) In animals at play. 

(b) In animals at work. 

(c) In pets. 

(d) In animals dressed up. 

In Grown-ups doing things. 

(a) Father and other men at work in trade life. 

(b) Mother, sisters and neighbors at work and play in 
home and neighborhood environment. 

In Things which Go. 

(a) Automobiles. 

(b) Trains. 

(c) Wagons, etc, 


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In Humor, Nonsense, the Grotesque. 

(a) Animals dressed up and doing things like people. 

(b) In exaggerated dramatic action. That which is ex¬ 
treme to us is natural to a child’s humor; the emphasis with him 
lies in the action. 

(c) Nonsense, incongruity, inconsequent action. A child 
needs simple nonsense which provokes laughter. 

(2) Composition of Pictures. 

(a) Simplicity—a broad, simple treatment. 

(b) Definite detail—“much definite detail which never 
has the effect of confusing the main thought of a picture.” 

(c) Strong, clear outlines. 

(d) Large, bold figures. 

(e) Rich and vivid coloring—that which is crude to us 
in its brightness satisfies a child’s color hunger. 

(f) Action. 

(3) Imagination Child-like. 

Those who understand children realize the vitality which pic¬ 
tures have for them. A child’s imagination is both fanciful and 
constructive. He builds his mind-pictures out of the “stuff” of 
his everyday experiences. His imagery is made up of familiar 
objects seen in their natural relations, and his familiar experi¬ 
ences are the everyday surroundings. The gnomes, fairies, elves 
and other creations of his early years are the flowers, trees, birds, 
animals, all animate and inanimate objects vested by him with 
a sense of personality akin to his own experience. His fancy is 
a very simple and open one, full of the fresh charm of naive 
wonder which is the peculiar endowment of the little child, but 
not vested with the mystery so often read into it by the grown¬ 
up’s conception. The grotesque element in a child’s imagination 
needs careful guarding in these early years so that it is not fed 
with the vulaar and horrible in pictures. Good wholesome nour¬ 
ishment of this instinct will plant the seed, which later will blos¬ 
som into that most beautiful and sunny of spiritual attributes—a 
bright sense of humor. 

Great pains have been taken in the following list to select 
such picture books as will adequately fill the needs indicated in 
the above outline. 

The Baby's Own Alphabet, by Walter Crane. Warne . 

For Babies. 

The A, B, C, accompanied by old English rhymes. There are three 
or four illustrations of Crane’s quaint beauty to a page. 


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Rag Books. Dutton, McLoughlin, Warne. 

For Babies. 

There is a period in a little child’s life when the instinct to destroy 
things is uppermost, when the delight in tearing or breaking or muss¬ 
ing things is the distress alike of fond mother and methodical nurse. 
The delight of having a usable picture book which they cannot spoil, 
and which the little hands may finger with familiar fondness, will help 
to counteract the desire to destroy everything within reach. The pic¬ 
tures in these little utility books are of familiar objects, of children, of 
animals, of household things. The separate objects in pictures please 
a child who is just learning to distinguish and name different things 
in his environment. 

The following is a list of ten of the good “Rag Books” published: 
“Baby’s Rag Book,” “The Garden,” “Pussikins,” “Bunny Cotton-Tail.” 
“Animals and Their Little Ones,” “Tick Tick,” “Peter Rabbit and His 
Pa,” “The Lucky Tub,” “Ring-Round-a-Rosy,” “A Apple Pie.” 

Untearable Linen Books. Dutton, McLoughlin, Warne. 

For Babies. 

The familiar rhymes and nursery tales and “things which go,” such 
as trains, airships, etc., form the subjects of these jolly picture books, 
that are delightful in their exaggerated dramatic action (which chil¬ 
dren love), their large figures and bright coloring. These books meet 
the need for simple, wholesome nonsense, which has no greater object, 
in view than the humble one of amusement, starting nowhere in par¬ 
ticular, and ending in a ripple of laughter and the inevitable, “more.” 

The following is a list of ten of the best “Untearable Linen Books” 
published: “My Book of Trains,” “My Airship Book,” “The Ugly 
Duckling,” “Puss in Boots,” “The House that Jack Built,” “Cock-a- 
Doodle-Doo,” “Tom the Piper’s Son,” “Ding, Dong, Bell,” “Cock 
Robin and Jenny Wren,” “Three Blind Mice.” 

Mother Goose. 

For Children, 2 — 4 . 

Among the many editions of this classic, “the only alma mater, with 
rhymes foolish but rhythmical, musical but meaningless,” may be 
named that with the dainty illustrations of Kate Greenaway (Warne), 
the graceful drawings in color and black-and-white of Fanny Cory 
( Bobbs-Merrill ) and Jessie Willcox Smith ( Dodd-Mead ), and the 
strikingly original sketches of Arthur Rackham (Century). 

Johnny Crow's Garden, by L. Leslie Brooke. Warne. 

For Children, 2 — 3 . 

“Johnny Crow’s Garden,” by Leslie Brooke, is one of the most suc¬ 
cessful funny books we can buy for little folk. Beginning with the 
promising first picture underneath which we read, 

“Johnny Crow 
Would dig and sow,” 

our curiosity is whetted tp turn over to the next page, where we learn 
that Master Johnny persevered “till he made a little garden,” then 


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accumulating interest because it tells much and promises more, we 
read under a ludicrously vain likeness of the animal in question, And 
the lion” (keen suspense because the leaf refuses to turn quickly) 
“had a green and yellow tie on.” And so on about The stork who 
gave a philosophic talk,” “The whale that told such a very long tale 
that all his wilted victims, save polite Johnny Crow, slunk away before 
the end, and then about the goose! Under the two pictures ot the 
goose we read: 

“And the goose—well, 

The goose was a goose!” 

—Clara W. Hunt. 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter. Warne. 

For Children, 2 — 5 . 

Beatrix Potter justly deserves her popularity as a child illustrator 
and author. She has the art of lifelike illustration and simple narra¬ 
tive which children love. 

Peter Rabbit is the story of the naughty rabbit who ran away to 
Mr. McGregor’s garden when his mother told him to stay at home. 
His family mishaps and narrow escapes from Mr. McGregor are told 
with a simplicity of incident which children love, and the pictures of 
Peter “doing things” are full of the human action with which children 
endow animal life. 

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, by Beatrix Potter, Warne. 
For Children, 2 — 5 . 

Benjamin Bunny is a continuation of the adventures in Mr. Mc¬ 
Gregor’s garden, and tells how Peter and Benjamin purloin the 
onions in a red bandana handkerchief and are caught under the clothes 
basket, when the cat sits on them for five hours, and then they are 
soundly spanked by old Father Bunny! Both pictures and narrative 
are full of innocent fun and the homelike adventures of a child’s own 
life, and herein lies the charm of the book. This little volume repre¬ 
sents quality—the highest quality—rather than quantity. 

Leslie Brooke's Children's Books. Warne. 

Vol. I. Contains “The Golden Goose,” and “The Three Bears.” 
Vol. II. Contains “The Three Little Pigs,” and “Tom Thumb.” 
For Children, 2 — 5 . 

Leslie Brooke is one in a thousand in his understanding of the kind 
of humor which pleases children and in his power as an illustrator for 
children in the most wholesome and comical way. Children delight in 
the grotesque, in the simple fun of animals who act like folk and who 
are full of harmless antics. 

These picture books are a joke from beginning to end—just good- 
humored child fun which will make young and old alike turn to it as 
a friend time and time again. The illustrations are very beautiful and 
artistic as well, both as to coloring, simplicity of detail, childlike con* 
ception of action. 


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A Story Garden for Little Children, By Maud Lindsay. 
For Children, 3 — 6. Lot hr Op. 

This reviewer coincides with Emilie Poulsson when she says in her 
introduction: “I can unqualifiedly recommend Miss Lindsay’s stories 
as the very best I know for little children. They are by far the best 
literary product (of their kind) that can be traced to the kindergarten 
or to the new understanding of childhood that marks our time. They 
will give joy, refine the taste, enrich the imagination and gently propel 
the child toward the True, the Beautiful and the Good.” These stories 
are all connected with the familiar life of every day. The tales are 
diversified by charming verses and by the lively and child-like illustra¬ 
tions of Florence Liley Young. 

The Peek-A-Boos Among the Bunnies. Drawings by Chloe 
Preston and George Howard-Vyse. Doran. 

For Children, 3 — 6 . 

Children love to “humanize” rabbits, and the author and illustrators 
realize this beautifully. The queer little Peek-a-Boos have a positive 
genius for making friends among children, and here they have ex¬ 
tended it to bunnies, as funny and quaintly human as the people in 
Alice-in-Wonderland. The Peek-a-Boos go for a visit to the Bunnies 
and are royally entertained, although several frolics and adventures 
were not on the program. The Peek-a-Boos live in a delightful world, 
and every child will love to play with them. 

Baby's Book of Trains and Ships. Dutton. 

For Children, 2 — 5 . 

At a very early age little boys and girls often develop a curious 
fascination for things that “go.” Here are colored pictures of trains 
and ships of many countries. 

Book of Baby Birds, by B. Parker. Stokes. 

For Children, 2 — 5 . 

Here is an unusually charming collection of black-and-white pic¬ 
tures, accompanied by text, showing baby birds at home on their 
nests. They give an excellent opportunity for sympathetic story¬ 
telling and for a first contact with nature. 

The Muffin Shop, by Louise Ayres Garnett. Rand. 

For Children, 2 — 6 . 

The Muffin Shop is one of the most delightful of American Rhyme 
and Picture Books. The story of the wonderful Muffin Shop where, 
for the paltry sum of a penny, may be purchased the most delicious 
muffins made by the quaintest of Muffin Men, is a treasure trove of 
happy nonsense. No wonder that within the Muffin Shop one meets 
all the familiar friends from the Mother Goose Country and stays 
awhile to eat muffins and visit with Jack and Jill, Bo Peep, the Queen 
of Hearts, and many other old-time Nursery Folk! 

The illustrations of Hope Dunlap are beautiful in their simplicity of 
composition, in their artistic coloring and childlike imagination. It is 
a charming book to be eagerly looked for and cherished by all children. 


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Hausmutterchen. Text by Bonn, Pictures by Pletsch 

Brentano. 

For Children, 2 — 6 . 

“The Little House-Mother” tells about homely German peasant life 
and the play of little children. The pictures are in color. The simple 
text is useful to accustom a young child to the simpler German names 
and phrases. 

Nos Enfants. Text by France, Pictures by de Monvel. 

Brentano. 

For Children, 2 — 6 . 

Short stories of French children, with colored pictures by the in¬ 
comparable illustrator of little ones, Boutet de Monvel. There is a 
companion volume, “Filles et Gargons,” by the same author, illustrator 
and publisher. The text of both is in French. 

The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter. Warne. 

For Children, 2 — 5 . 

A quaint little story told in beautiful English, with the element of 
repetition which little children enjoy. It tells the story of how the 
little mice helped the old Tailor who was ill by finishing the fine coat 
he left unmade. A good little book to read aloud to children. 

This little volume is uniform with the tale of Benjamin Bunny and 
Peter Rabbit, and therefore has the same character of artistic colored 
illustrations. 

Bilderbuch. 

Mit 65 Bildern von Oscar Pletsch und Reimen von Fredrich 
Oldenberg und anderen. 

For Children, 2 — 6 . 

This quaint book of old-fashioned children is illustrated by one of 
the most famous old-time German child artists, Oscar Pletsch. It is 
very happily adapted to children’s interests because the artist selects 
the simple home life and the everyday activities of little children as 
the subject of his pictures, and represents them with such sweet and 
tender appreciation of the home, and its loving relationship as is char¬ 
acteristic of the German nation. 

R. Caldecott's Picture Books —No. 2, No. 3, No. 4. Warne. 
For Children, 3 — 6 . 

Little folks delight in little books, so these pocket editions of R. 
Caldecott’s will surely be great favorites. No. 2 contains The House 
That Jack Built, Sing a Song for Sixpence and The Queen of Hearts; 
No. 3, Hey, Diddle Diddle, Baby Bunting, Ride a Cock Horse, The 
Milk Maid, and The Frog He Would a-Wooing Go; No. 4, Come, 
Lasses and Lads, The Fox Jumps Over the Parson’s Gate, Mrs. Mary 
Blaize and The Great Panjandrum Himself. The coloring is espe¬ 
cially beautiful, the pictures are very lifelike and full of jollity. 


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Hanschens Skifahrt Marchen, von Elsa Beskow. 

For Children, 3 — 6 . 

This is the beautiful little story of Hans and the Frost King! Hans 
starts off on his new skees to find the Frost King. He meets the 
jolly old fellow in the forest. Along comes old Dame Thaw with 
her broom to sweep Frost King away. But the old Ice King pursues 
her with his icy breath, and away she goes. Hans and Frost King 
arrive at King Winter’s palace, guarded by the polar bears, and here 
they encounter King Winter seated on his ice throne. Dame Thaw 
soon sweeps all the winter snow away and brings the spring rain, 
which wakens the green grass and flowers, and through the air comes 
the Fairy of Springtime, driven by her white butterflies! And Hans 
and Little Brother are glad it is spring. 

This is a little German idyl of the seasons, Winter and Springtime. 
The pictures are very beautiful in their simplicity of detail, clear out¬ 
line and rich coloring. 

The Book of Gnomes, by Fred E. Weatherby. Dutton. 

For Children, 4 — 6 . 

This is the story of how the gnomes gave a party and invited all the 
fairy folk and the insect folk to come. It tells of the invitation, of the 
great and gay preparations in the gnome kitchen, of the coming of the 
King and Queen of the Fairies, of the feast, of the fairy dance in the 
fairy ring. And all the gay comings and goings, the pranks of the 
mischievous elves, the quaint, queer ways of these little underground 
folk, the gnomes, are illustrated in beautiful full-page colored pictures, 
as well as in black and white. So the little child who cannot read the 
verse can see the story through the bright pictures. 

Field Babies, by Cecil Aldin. Doran. 

For Children, 3 — 6 . 

This delightful picture book gives most graphically the story of a 
runaway puppy named Pippin and his funny adventures with the 
various field babies he encounters on his journeyings. The gosling, 
the baby bunnies, the queer little hedgehog, the owlets, the hare, the 
lambkin, the foxes and the ducklings—all enter into the puppy’s ex¬ 
perience in the wide world. Finally he is rescued from drowning by 
the Keeper and carried home in his pocket. 

Rhymes of Real Children, by Betty Sage, illustrated by Jessie 
Willcox Smith. Duffield. 

For Children, 3 — 6 . 

This beautiful picture book is well named “Rhymes of Real Chil¬ 
dren,” for the unique charm of this well-known and well-loved artist 
of American childhood, Jessie Willcox Smith, lies in the fact that her 
children are so really and truly typical of Young America in its 
most attractive and everyday mood. 

Miss Sage has given some pretty rhymes about Daddy, when a little 
boy; Nursery Tea; “Miss Mariar,” the dressmaker; kittens, and other 
everyday affairs in a child’s little present; and Jessie Willcox Smith 


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has illustrated these rhymes with a charming and natural lifelikeness 
which makes a beautiful picture book, wherein the little child will see 
his own daily experiences as in a looking glass. 

The Baby's Opera,, by Walter Crane. Warne. 

For Children, 3 — 6. 

“The Baby’s Opera” is a delight, for here Ye Goode Childe (may¬ 
hap the bad one, too!) will find his favorite old rhymes with the new 
dresses which Mr. Crane has given them, and set to the music by the 
earliest masters. The pictures are charming in their quaint simplicity 
and delicate coloring, and are so simple that the children will love 
them. This book is a child’s classic of the old-time nursery songs. 

The Baby's Bouquet, by Walter Crane. Warne. 

For Children, 3 — 6. 

“The Baby’s Bouquet” is a collection of old English, French and 
German “ditties,” illustrated by the famous English artist, Walter 
Crane. There are many full-page and marginal illustrations, which 
are characterized by their beautiful coloring and the quaint artistic 
grace of figure for which this artist is noted. These little lads and 
lassies, dames and squires are very unique and delightful, and the 
detail of the pictures is simple and childlike. The little songs, many 
very familiar to our children, will be doubly enjoyable because of the 
delightful illustrations which accompany them. 

Mother Goose Village, by Maud Bigham. Rand. 

For children, 3 — 6. 

The writer has ingeniously taken the folks and the scenery of 
Mother Goose and amplified them into a community, where many 
novel adventures are undertaken by the Mother Goose children. The 
type is large and there are many colored pictures. 

Pinafore Palace, by Mrs. Wiggin and Miss Smith. Doubleday. 
For Children, 3 — 6. 

A good first book of verses, containing not only many Mother 
Goose rhymes, but also the simpler ones from Riley, Field, Stevenson 
and others. 

Hanschen Im Blaubeerenwald, von Elsa Beskow. 

For Children, 3 — 6. 

Little Hans starts to find the blueberries in the woods. He falls 
asleep, and lo! there is the little Blueberry Father! He takes Hans 
with him to his little house in the blueberry patch, where all the blue¬ 
berry boys are! Hans is tiny now like Blueberry Father. The boys 
climb the bushes and fill his basket and take him for a sail in their 
little leaf boat. Then away they gallop on the field mice to the little 
home where the Little Holly Mother lives with her five little Holly 
girls. 

The pictures are very beautiful and truly childlike in their whole¬ 
some simplicity of imaginary personficiation of the life in nature as 
children see it. 


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Windchen, von Sibylle V. Olfers. 

For Children, 3 — 6. 

This dainty childlike fancy of the “Wind” tells itself through its 
beautiful pictures. The wind is personified as a little fairy boy in 
blue. In the first picture, up in the tree he perches, while the little lad 
tries to blow his boats out to sea. In the next picture Windchen and 
the Little Boy are running through the meadows, while Windchen 
blows the tiny white dandelion seeds before him, and George is out of 
breath with running. In the next picture Windchen is taking down 
the apples from the tree, and in the next the tiny rose children are 
filling Little Boy’s blouse with rose apples. In the next one Little 
Boy and Windchen are playing with the leaf babies, the tiniest, dearest 
. little tots, with bright leaves for wings. In the next, Windchen and 
Little Boy are riding on the clouds. And then comes Little Boy’s 
goodbye to Windchen at the garden gate. 

The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. Bobbs. 

For Children, 3 — 6. 

Dorothy, the heroine, lived with her uncle and aunt on a farm in 
Kansas. One day a cyclone carried the house, with Dorothy and the 
dog Toto in it, many miles away to the land of Oz. They alight on 
the wicked witch of the East, killing her. The Munchkins, the Scare¬ 
crow, The Great Oz, etc., are introduced, and Dorothy’s adventures 
are in full swing.— Coussens. Crude pictures, vivid colors, but de¬ 
lectable text. There are several of the Oz series. 

Book of Folk-Stories, by Horace E. Scudder. Houghton. 
For Children, 4 — 7. 

The old stories of The Three Bears, Hans in Luck, Chicken Little 
and the rest, told in simple, interesting style. A foundation book in 
its field. 

Arabella and Araminta, by Gertrude Smith. Small. 

For Children, 5— 6. 

The rhythm and repetition which mark these simplest possible sto¬ 
ries of the plays and troubles of two little girls have a great charm 
for most little children. 

The Railroad Book, by E. Boyd Smith. Houghton. 

The sub-title of this book is “Bob and Betty’s Summer on the Rail¬ 
road.” Mr. Smith is not only the author, but the illustrator, and the 
charmingly tinted illustrations are the best feature of the book. Every 
boy and girl loves to watch trains of cars and likes to take journeys 
upon them, and in this book the author begins with the children 
watching the passing trains, describes their growing acquaintance with 
the trainmen and their ride in the cab of the locomotive, and their 
visit to the round-house, the wrecking car and the freight house, and 
then takes them upon a journey, during which they become acquainted 
with the central station, a dining car, a sleeping car and the incidents 
of travel. To the little child who wants to become an engineer some 
time, this will be a delight. 


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A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals, 

by J. G. Francis. Century. 

For Children, 4 — 6. 

Funny verses and even funnier animal pictures. A delightful book 
for old and young, because of the ability shown in the illustrations. 

In My Nursery, by Laura E. Richards. Little. 

For Children, 4 — 7. 

Here are some delectable nonsense verses that are not all nonsense, 
some little lyrics full of childlikeness and humor, and some other 
verses that are really poetry. Among the few books of verses that 
can really be read to young children we count these of Mrs. Richards 
thoroughly good. 

The Roggie and Reggie Stories, by Gertrude Smith. Harper. 
For Children, 5 — 6. 

This companion to The Arabella and Araminta Stories tells in the 
same pleasant reiterative style of the doings of the little girls’ little 
twin brothers. The illustrations are in color. 

The Sunbonnet Babies' Book, by Eulalie Osgood Grover. 

For Boys and Girls, 4 — 7 . Rand. 

It is a story about Molly and May, two little Sunbonnet Babies, who 
do all the things and see all the sights that real girls and boys do and 
see at the happy age of five or six. Each story is illustrated by catchy 
and artistic colored pictures of these chubby children engaged in their 
little activities. The Sunbonnet Babies are like real people, and so 
real children like them. 

The Hiawatha Primer, by Florence Holbrook. Houghton. 
For Boys or Girls, 4 — 7. 

The book is intended primarily as a First Reader, and with this end 
in view the author has made a prose adaptation of Longfellow’s poem, 
which is excellent for children’s use. It gives a good basis for a wide 
vocabulary, for while the language is rich and varied, the element of 
repetition is constantly employed, and the narrative is very simply 
told. The prose gives the same idea over again in a variety of ways, 
so that while the repetition never becomes monotonous, it builds up 
so clear a concept that when the child reads the poem, he finds it is 
his own. The children live with Hiawatha. The book is very beau¬ 
tifully illustrated throughout with colored pictures of Hiawatha, of 
his “brothers” and “chickens,” which makes it a good picture book. 

The Farm Book, by E. Boyd Smith. Houghton. 

For Children, 5— 6. 

Written and illustrated in color by Mr. Smith. Two city children 
visit a farm, and watch the processes of sowing, ploughing, reaping, 
making butter, feeding the chickens and going to market. Simple 
story and charming pictures. 



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Marigold Garden, by Kate Greenaway. Warne. 

For Children Under 6. 

This is one of the daintiest and most charming of Kate Greenaway’s 
picture and rhyme books. The delicately colored pictures are like all 
Qf hers, the quaint English children with the big hats and short- 
waisted dresses, and in delicate coloring. The poems are homelike, 
with a breath of the springtime in them. 

Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea, by Ottilia 
Adelborg. Longmans. 

For Children Under 6. 

This is a tale for little children. It is told in verse, and is the funny 
story of Clean Peter and his efforts to convert the dirty children of 
Grubbylea into ways of cleanliness. It is full of whimsical humor. 
Each page is illustrated in a very artistic and childlike manner, which 
makes it primarily a picture book. The pictures are free from carica¬ 
ture, but are full of clean nonsense, and unusually good. 

Select Fables From La Fontaine, by Jean de la Fontaine. 

Gorham. 

For Children of 5. 

This edition is chosen because of Monsieur Boutet de Monvel’s 
charming small illustrations in color. There are from two to eight 
pictures on each page, accompanying the text, which is in verse. 

Story of Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman. Reilly. 
For Children , 6 — 7. 

A story invented for two little girls by an English lady in India, 
“where black children abound and tigers are everyday affairs.’'’ Very 
popular. 

GOOPS AND HOW TO BE THEM ; A MANUAL FOR POLITE INFANTS, 
Inculcating Many Virtues, Both by Precept and Ex¬ 
ample. By Gelett Burgess. Stokes. 

For Children, 6 — 8. 

Advice on manners and morals in amusing verse that children can¬ 
not fail to remember. 

The Brownies, Their Book, by Palmer Cox. Century. 

For Children, 6 — 8. 

The “Brownies” first saw the light on the pages of St. Nicholas, and 
they have ever since been favorites with the children. Hordes of gro¬ 
tesque and comical little elves swarm on every page, intent on mischief 
or merrymaking, and the drawing is very clever. Rhymed stories 
accompany the illustrations, but the pictures are the important part. 
There are many other Brownie books, all of which are good. The 
very latest, The Brownies’ Many More Nights, tells of their adven¬ 
tures with a railroad, an electric light and other human contrivances. 


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Indian Child-Life, by E. W. Deming. Stokes. 

For Children, 6 — 7. 

Written for children and made most attractive by many full-page 
colored plates after paintings in water color. The descriptions of 
Indian life are simple, wholesome and not harrowing. 

A Runaway Donkey, by Emilie Poulsson. Lothrop. 

For Children, 6 — 7. 

Rhymed stories of home pets, with simple illustrations which chil¬ 
dren like. 

First Steps for Little Feet in Gospel Paths, by Charles 
Foster. Foster. 

To Use with Little Children. 

It will, of course, be impossible to find one book of simple Bible 
stories that will satisfy mothers of every shade of belief, but we can 
think of no other book so successful in simplicity and sweetness of 
language as this old one, for telling little children the story of Jesus. 
There are one hundred stories, with simple line drawings. 

PLAY 

“I have just to shut my eyes 
To go sailing through the skies— 

To go sailing far away 
To the pleasant Land of Play; 

To the fairy land afar 
Where the Little People are.” 

—Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Father and Baby Plays, by Emilie Poulsson. Century. 

To Use with Babies. 

This unique book of simple rhymes for father’s playtime with baby 
is full of excellent suggestion for the gala hours in the home life. 
Miss Poulsson has made happy adaptation of the tossing, jumping, 
climbing, pick-a-back and romping plays, which are the universal 
expression of the father’s playtime with the children. 

Let's Pretend, by Clifton Bingham. Dutton. 

For Boys and Girls, 4 — 7. 

A series of verses with pleasant colored illustrations showing little 
children how to play cars, Punch and Judy, tiger hunt, pirates, ships, 
etc., with such common objects as tables, chairs, rocking horses and 
other things found around the house. 

Floor Games, by H. G. Wells. Small. 

To Use with Boys and Girls, 5—p. 

An extraordinarily fascinating book by this well-known Utopian 
novelist, showing fathers how to play with their children on the floor, 


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utilizing blocks, toy soldiers and Noah’s ark men and other objects 
that are at hand, to make villages, railroads, encampments and have 
continuous dramatic play. A book that Robert Louis Stevenson would 
have enjoyed. 

Stick-and-Pea Plays, by C. S. Pratt. Lothrop. 

To Use with Children Up to 8. 

Doll’s furniture and other playthings made out of sticks and dried 
peas and suggestions of games and plays to use with them. 

The House That Glue Built, by Clara Andrews Williams. 
For Children, 4 — 7. Stokes. 

This is one of a series of about fifteen color books written by Clara 
A. Williams and illustrated by George A. Williams. They fit under 
the classification of handicraft as well as that of literature. Accom¬ 
panying each story is a graceful sketch. Upon this are to be pasted by 
the child various figures and objects, thus completing the picture. 
There is a small sketch with each page of the cutout objects, indicat¬ 
ing where they are to be placed upon the larger print. Some of the 
more attractive titles of this series are: “The Children’s Store,” “The 
Children’s Theater,” “The Ark That Glue Made” and “The House 
That Glue Made.” 

Easy Games for Little Players, by Margaret Boughton. 

For Children, 4—7 . Charles and Dibble. 

An English publication showing how to turn the nursery rhymes 
into dramatic form. This would be excellent for a children’s party or 
for any little circle that chances to be meeting in the home. The sug¬ 
gested dialogue does not need to be memorized. Bright-witted little 
ones would catch the suggestion and work out the stories merrily. 
Among the stories thus dramatized are “Little Red Riding Hood,” 
“Cinderella,” “Little Boy Blue,” “The Birds of Killingworth” and 
“The Pied Piper.” These little games involve running, searching, 
singing and activities in a circle. They require practically no appa¬ 
ratus except what is in the house, and they can be played at any 
season of the year. 

Little Dramas, by Ada Maria Skinner and Lillian Nixon Law¬ 
rence. American Book. 

For Children of 6. 

The special value of this dramatic reader is that most of the mate¬ 
rial is directly from or adapted from stories or sketches or poems by 
well-known writers. 

The Child-Lore Dramatic Reader, by Catherine T. Bryce. 
For Children of 6. Scribner. 

This is another reading book for the first grade, containing selec¬ 
tions largely from good literary sources arranged in dramatic form. 
There are a few practical suggestions at the close for dramatizing 
some of these stories in the schoolroom or home. No accessories are 
necessary except such as may be found anywhere. 


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Rhymes for Little Hands, by Maud Burnham. Bradley. 

A very charming little book of finger plays. The unique thing is that 
every single motion necessary to portray the charming rhymes is 
illustrated by a little photograph. This makes it a very practical as 
well as a very delightful book both for mother and kindergartner. 
The gesture illustrations progress naturally and easily from one to 
the other. The fairy rhymes are given for little children too young 
for a real fairy story. The mother who enters into these plays with 
animation can have a real good time with her baby, and will be teach¬ 
ing it a great deal at the same time. 


SEEING AND DOING 

Including a few books of simple information on science, art, 
nature, etc. 

Some of these are named because they show mothers how 
to make their children’s play-activities of educational value to 
them. Others are chosen because they connect so directly with 
nature and out-of-doors and elementary knowledge of science or 
art. Several simple books upon home-helping are indicated, and 
a few whose value is simply that they show how to do various 
forms of busy-work at home in a practical way. 

A Primer of Work and Play, by Edith Alger. Heath. 

For Boys and Girls , 5— 6. 

A little reading-book for those who are just of school age. It is not 
a guide to handicraft, but it gives simple descriptions and pictures of 
the various activities of home, school and the neighborhood which 
appeal to children. It tends to make the little ones think of work 
with respect. 

Beard Birds, by Adelia Belle Beard. Stokes. 

A book of life-size cut-outs of common birds with adjustable wings. 
Can be made to stand up. Short description of each bird, nest and 
eggs by the author. Besides being charming toys, these cut-outs will 
prove an aid in the study of natural birds. 

Home Occupations for Boys and Girls, by Bertha Johnston. 
To Use with Children Up to 9. Jacobs. 

This volume is largely a book of suggestion. The ideas offered have 
been garnered from various sources, including practical experience in 
the home, actual daily work in the kindergarten and recollections of 
the author’s own childhood. 

1. The Secrets of the Market Basket. 2. Mother Nature’s Horn of 
Plenty. 3. Saved From the Scrap Basket. 4. The Sewing Basket. 
5. The Paint Box. 6. Dolls and Doll-Houses. 7. Plays and Games. 
8. Festival Occasions. 9. The Key Basket. 10. The Child’s Library. 
11. Kindergarten Materials—The Gifts. 12. The Occupations. 


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Little Folks - ' Land, by Madge A. Bingham. Atkinson. 

For Boys and Girls, 6—7. 

“Little Folks’ Land” is literally the story of a little boy in a big 
world. It tells the story of “Joe-Boy” as he grew from a baby in a 
gypsy camp into an active member of society in “Little Folks’ Land.” 
The story of his development is charmingly told,—of how the archi¬ 
tect, the carpenter, the brickmason, the painter, the farmer, the horse, 
the dog, the cat and the sheep, and many others helped to make his 
home, and to make him happy and comfortable. Joe-Boy’s civil, 
domestic and animal relationships are brought out, as well as his 
relation to the flowers, birds and bees. 

To mothers looking for stories to tell again and again to their chil¬ 
dren or to read aloud of an evening, the book will be an actual blessing. 

The Overall Boys, by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Rand. 

For Boys and Girls, 4 — 7. 

This is the story of the rollicking adventures of four happy little 
boys, with Molly and May, of “Sunbonnet” fame, joining in some of 
their games. 

The sayings and doings of Jack, Joe, Tim and Ted are of perennial 
interest to children. Their adventures on the farm—up at five 
o’clock in the morning to go milking, feeding the chickens, driving the 
cows to pasture, riding the hay-wagon, mowing grass—all these things 
appeal to the love of doing things out of doors. Then the experience 
of camping, the trip to the city, the celebration of the holidays—all 
are told in a way which makes one live with the Overall Boys in their 
happy boyhood experience. 

When Mother Lets Us Help, by Constance Johnson. Moffat. 
For Girls, 7 —9. 

This is a practical little book for small girls and boys who want to 
be useful about the house. It mentions only the things which little 
children can do, and it describes very carefully how to do them. It 
deals with such subjects as making the bed, tidying the bedroom, 
sweeping, taking care of silver, washing dishes, putting things in their 
places, taking out spots and behaving when visiting. 

The Sand Man—H is Farm Stories, by William J. Hopkins. 
For Boys and Girls, 5 — 8. Page. 

These simple bedtime stories were told to a little child by his father, 
night after night, and proved to be so soothing and helpful to the little 
one that Mr. Hopkins has written them for the benefit of other chil¬ 
dren at Sand Man times. They are good because they are so simply 
told. They are narratives of all the familiar things which a child 
loves in the activities of a farm life. And the same things are. told 
over and over again, with a new element of interest and incident 
constantly added. This style of narrative is a source of great delight 
to little children to whom the element of repetition is a joy forever, 
and yet who demand the cumulation of events, which suggest the 
fresh delight of new possibilities in the story, where more may happen. 


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Work and Play for Little Girls, by Hedwig Levi. Duffield. 
To Use with Children, 5 — 8, 

This book tells how to make tiny toys out of such common things 
as match-boxes, corks and paper. Nearly everything discussed is in¬ 
tended for Christmas presents or for Christmas decorations. 

Sonny Boy's Day at the Zoo, by Ella Bentley Arthur. Century. 
For Boys and Girls, 4 —7. 

An unusual book, giving the recollections of a little boy who spent 
long summer days in the New York Zoological Gardens. His mother 
has put the supposed conversation of the different animals with the 
little boy into verse, and the father has illustrated them with some 
extraordinary photographs of living creatures. For purposes of 
identification, these alone are of very great value. 

Little Folks' Handy Book, by Lina and Adelia B. Beard. 

To Use "with Boys and Girls, 4 — 10. Scribner. 

A veritable treasure-house of play and work and occupations. Like 
all the Beard books, the descriptions are simple and the pictures and 
working-drawings are very good. 

Wiiat and How, by Anna W. Henderson and H. O. Palen. 

To Use with Children, 5— 10. Bradley. 

A book for mothers and school teachers, with many illustrations in 
color of finished work, showing how to do stick-laying, clay modeling, 
sawing, free-hand cutting, weaving, etc. Because of the graphic illus¬ 
trations, many a mother will feel emboldened to try some of these 
handiworks with her children who would otherwise be discouraged 
from making the effort. 

Home Occupations for Little Children, by Katherine Beebe. 
To Use with Children, 4 —7. Saalfield. 

A book entirely for the home, suggesting how to use kindergarten 
material. There are also chapters on work with needle and thread, 
with paste and scissors and with paints and pencils. There is a chap¬ 
ter on Christmas and holiday work. Some simple suggestions are 
made for games and play in the home. 

The Child Housekeeper, by Elizabeth Colson and Anna Gans- 
voort Chittenden. Barnes. 

T0 Use with Girls, 6 —7. 

A book intended, as the introduction states, to “put poetry into 
dish-washing and bring sunshine into housekeeping.” The use of the 
book is to teach young girls to work neatly and efficiently at home. 
There are some pleasant music, poetry and stories in each chapter, yet 
the poetry do*es not prevent the book from being most practical. It 
will be most helpful to mothers in training their little daughters to be 
home-makers. 


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Lady Hollyhock, by M. C. Walker. Baker. 

To Use with Boys and Girls, 4 —7. 

Also, “Tales Come True.” Both volumes tell how to make dolls 
out of flowers and vegetables. Colored pictures and simple text. 

Father Tuck's Painting Books. Tuck. 

For Boys and Girls, 4 —7. 

A series of small but strong books containing at each opening a 
colored picture and a black-and-white picture opposite, to color. At 
the end of the book dry water colors are arranged upon small strips 
of paper, so that all the child needs is a brush and a glass of water 
in order to do the coloring. There are at least forty booklets in this 
series, all apparently of equal interest, although pictures of animals 
and of trains will perhaps be most attractive to little children. 

The Little Artist, by Marion Mackenzie. Bradley. 

To Use with Boys and Girls, 6 —7. 

An introduction to painting for mothers and kindergartners to use 
with small children. This is a more serious book than the Tuck pic¬ 
ture-books. It helps the mother to show the child how to lay and 
mix colors and to draw simple flower forms. 

A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl, by Caroline French 
Benton. Estes. 

To Use with Girls, 6 —7 and Older. 

It begins by saying, “Once upon a time there was a little girl named 
Margaret. She wanted to cook.” The book goes on to tell the things 
that Margaret made. This is a book not for a child’s use, but for the 
mother to use with a child. The recipes have been used by many 
mothers in the Institute, and our secretaries recommend it heartily. 

Occupations for Little Fingers, by Elizabeth Sage and Anna 
M. Cooley. Scribner. 

To Use with Children, 4 — 7. 

This is a practical book for little children on how to make things. 
It is especially intended for schools, but is useful for parents. Articles 
of small cost are suggested. The book tells how to do cord-work, to 
make articles from raffia, to do paper cutting, clay modeling, weaving, 
bead-work, crocheting, knitting, and to make furniture for dolls’ 
houses. There is a special chapter of work for boys and one of work 
for girls. Many illustrations, both of the work in the process of mak¬ 
ing and the way the articles look when completed. 

Suggestions for Handwork in School and Home, by Jane L. 
Hoxie. Bradley. 

To Use with Boys and Girls, 4 — 6. 

This is a book which mothers can use with children of kindergarten 
age. It tells especially how to make beautiful things with ink, pencil 


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and colors, by winding and sewing, by weaving and modeling, and 
there are also descriptions of such delightful playthings as dolls and 
furniture made out of nuts, chairs made from seeds, farms made out 
of sand and menageries made out of paper. 

Famous Pictures of Children, by Julia Augusta Schwartz. 
For Children of 6. American Book. 

A book for supplementary reading in school. There are seventeen 
reproductions. This little book is characterized by its excellent de¬ 
scriptions, in each case, of the circumstances under which the child 
was painted, of the meaning of the picture, and of the after history 
of the child or the picture. 

Stories of Great Artists, by Olive Browne Horne and Kath¬ 
erine Lois Scobey. American Book. 

For Children of 6. 

Incidents that would interest children in artists’ lives, with repro¬ 
ductions of their famous works. The artists studied are Raphael, 
Angelo, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Corot, Landseer, Bonheur and Millet. 

Cyr Graded Art Readers, by Ellen M., Cyr. Ginn. 

For Children, 6 —8 . 

There are three of these readers. Each one of them takes up in a 
simple and pleasant way the lives of several artists find gives charm¬ 
ing reproductions in two-tone prints of such of their works as are 
most interesting to children, and also simple descriptions of these 
reproductions. 

Picture Stories From the Great Artists, by Mary R. Cady 
and Julia M. Dewey. Macmillan. 

For Children of 6. 

Pleasant little sketches, for children just learning to read, of artists, 
with interwoven descriptions of their pictures, which are reproduced 
in half-tone. The artists are Bonheur, Van Dyke, Landseer and 
Murillo. 


MUSIC 

“And the morning stars sang together.” 

Musical Kindergarten Method, by Daniel Batchellor. Presser . 

Two things which always attract children are pure musical tones 
and beautiful colors. Tones and colors are but two forms of the 
language of feeling. The sense of eye and ear are called into exer¬ 
cise by the beauty of the tone and color harmonies. Mr. Batchellor 
has made a special study of the natural sympathy between tones and 
colors and of their relation to child nature. He has had a long and 
varied experience and in the course of his work with the children 
he has used many devices to awaken their interest and secure their 
intelligent co-operation. The devices of most permanent value have 


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been selected to accompany this book. The book was originally 
intended for kindergarten use, but it will be very helpful to the mother 
who is beginning to interest her little one in music practice. A com¬ 
plete set of the accompanying apparatus costs about five dollars, but 
an ingenious mother can easily make much of it herself and can 
select enough from the price-list so that the total expense will not be 
a burden to her. 

Half-Hour Lessons in Music, by Mrs. Hermann Kotzschmar. 

Ditson. 

A jolly little book telling how an enthusiastic teacher has taken 
beginners and kept them enthusiastic through the earlier stages of 
music-practice. Though intended for teachers, it will be helpful to 
mothers who are guiding the practice of their children, and some of 
the devices children themselves can use with pleasure. 

Piano Technic for Children, by Julia Lois Caruthers. Summy. 

An unusual book in which the simple technique of piano play is 
taught to little children by action songs. The basis is a series of 
Mother Goose rhymes set to music, and, as the child acts out each 
story with his fingers, he is unconsciously making them more supple 
and ready for the mastery of the piano as an instrument. Of all at¬ 
tempts to make piano practice enjoyable, this is certainly one of the 
most delightful. Any mother may use it, and it contains simple 
directions for either parents or teachers. There are charming illus¬ 
trations of actual children’s hands. 

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Other Nursery Songs. 

Set to music by J. W., Elliott. Hinds. 

This is an old collection that has recently been reprinted. Surely 
Mother Goose was intended to be ‘.‘sung” as well as “said.” and while 
the music is not very classical, it is simple and unobjectionable, and 
it will be enjoyed by little ones when mother sings it to them. 

Rhythmic Action Plays and Dances, by Irene E. Phillips 
Moses. Bradley. 

This book is intended to introduce children to folk dances through 
simple movements of games and rhythmic action plays. The writer 
avoids all technical terms and the more or less irksome drill on the 
mechanism of the advanced subjects. The book fills a gap between 
the rhythmic work of the kindergarten and the more formal work 
of the physical education department in school. Most of the tunes 
are set to the words of Mother Goose. The music itself has well- 
accented rhythms, is bright and lively, has a jingle and “catch’ 
and is simple for children to sing. The relationship between these 
songs and play is very satisfactorily worked out. The directions are 
practical. There are many charming pictures of little children per¬ 
forming these evolutions. 


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Songs and Music of Froebel's Mother Play. Arranged by 
Susan E. Blow. Flanagan. 

A free rendering of the verses of the songs of the original mother 
plays with the quaint old pictures. At the end of the book is a col¬ 
lection of music for these songs, mostly by good modern American 
composers. This will be a very helpful book for musical mothers 
to use in play with their children. 

Children's Singing Games: Old and New, by Mari R. Hofer. 

Flanagan. 

An excellent collection of simple songs from many racial sources. 
It includes such old favorites as “The Farmer in the Dell/’ “Here We 
Go Round the Mulberry Bush,” “London Bridge,” and so forth, and a 
number of new ones. 

The Song Primer, by Alys E. Bentley. Barnes. 

An attractive little book with pictures containing simple songs 
printed in large, plain notes and type, giving the melody without 
accompaniment. The themes are such natural ones as “The Fiddle,” 
“The Bear,” “The Scissors Grinder,” “The Train,” “The Bee,” and 
others mostly imitative of familiar sounds. 

Play Songs, by Alys E. Bentley. Barnes. 

These songs, for the youngest children, are intended “to use the 
whole child.” They are based upon fundamental rhythms and their 
topics are so varied in reference to activity that they express all the 
life of a little one both indoors and out. 

Modern Music Series Primer, by Eleanor Smith. Silver. 

Songs of the Child World, by A. C. D. Riley and Jessie L. 
Gaynor. Church. 

Small Songs for Small Singers, by W. H. Neidlinger. 

Schirmer 

Songs of a Little Child's Day, by Emilie Poulson and Eleanor 
Smith. Bradley. 

These are the best textbooks used in elementary schools for teach¬ 
ing singing. Mothers who do not send their children early to school 
will be glad to know them by title. They are of quite even merit. 


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BOOKS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN 

Here are lists of books upon all the topics in which school 
children from about seven to fourteen are interested. This part 
begins with the things young folks like to do and see, then there 
is a long list of story-books. Following are some of more serious 
importance, still full of interest, such as poetry and biography, art 
and music, business and the problems of life. 

This is a noble company of friends, life-long friends some of 
them may be. They will go with you out to your play, they will 
stand by you at the bench and the piano, they will sit with you 
when you are alone, and many of them will mean more to you than 
the comrades who talk to you. For these friends never deceive 
nor betray, are never foolish or sad-hearted, and they never fail. 


PLAY, RECREATION AND ATHLETICS 

OPEN-AIR GAMES AND PERSONAL HEALTH 

“This they all with a joyful mind 

Bear through life like a torch in flame, 

And falling fling to the host behind— 

‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’ ” 

—Henry Newbolt. 

The Child's Day, by Woods Hutchinson, M. D. Houghton. 

This strikes us as a most attractive and sensible book to help a boy 
or girl take pride in the strength and beauty of the body. It begins 
with getting up in the morning and goes along through the various 
physical activities of the day, eating and walking, work and play, 
keeping clean and alert, and shows how each should be done and 
clearly why. 

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium, 

by Jessie H. Bancroft. Macmillan. 

For use by playground and gymnasium teachers; also fine collection 
of games for home use. Descriptions of games and rules for playing 
are clear and practical. The fullest, most varied and best graded and 
indexed collection in print. 


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Folk Dances and Games, by Caroline Crawford. Barnes. 

Contains 7 Finnish, 11 Swedish, 5 Scotch, 5 English, 4 German, 1 
French and 6 Bohemian dances, with music and instructions, used in 
folk dancing classes of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, New 
York City. 

Practical Track and Field Athletics, by Ellery H. Clark and 
John Graham. Du field. 

New revised edition. Contains descriptions of practical methods of 
training for various events, including sprinting, jumping, pole vault¬ 
ing, shot putting, hammer throwing, etc. 

At Home in the Water, by George H. Corsan. Y. M. C. A. 

When, a few years ago, the Young Men’s Christian Associations 
adopted for their slogan “Every Man and Boy in America a Swim¬ 
mer,” they employed the author of this book to' give instruction 
upon a wholesale plan. Mr. Corsan handled large swimming classes, 
and it was found that with a very few lessons from a competent in¬ 
structor, almost anybody could proceed successfully in the practice 
of swimming. The book issued a little later by the Young Men’s 
Christian Association Press is intended to take the place of these 
fundamental lessons, or to supplement them. Mr. Corsan is definite 
in the directions he gives, and the volume is generously illustrated. 

How to Play Baseball, by the Greatest Baseball Players. 

Crowell 

As a handbook on the national game, this little volume will be 
welcomed by all who are interested. Each chapter tells of the duties 
of each man on the- team from catcher to umpire, and is written by 
the greatest authority who has played that position. Much useful 
information and personal experience is given in this way, and helps 
beginners in the game, who feel confidence in following the advice of 
famous players such as Frank L. Chance, Oscar Stanage, Edward 
Collins, Harry Lord, Owen Bush, Tris Speaker, “Ty” Cobb, “Billy” 
Evans, Frank M. Schulte and “Jack” Coombs. 

Truths : Talks with a Boy Concerning Himself, by Edith B. 
Lowry, M.D. Forbes. 

“This book contains the simple truths of life development and sex 
which should be given to every boy approaching manhood.” 

Parents, guardians and teachers will find this a sensible and helpful 
guide, medically authoritative and written in such simple language 
that it is easily understood. 

Confidences: Talks with a Young Girl Concerning Her¬ 
self, by Edith B. Lowry, M.D. Forbes. 

“The facts concerning the development of life that should be known 
by every girl from ten to fourteen years of age are here given in such 
clear and suitable language that the book may be placed in the hands 
of the young girl.” 


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DRAMATICS 

“Dress you up then, make a stage, 

Be a king, a knight, a page, 

Fairy princess, swineherd rude, 

Monk, or merry Robin Hood. 

Take your choice, whate’er it be. 

Learn your part right merrily/' 

r -Lena Dalkeith. 

For Children, 7 to 12 

Story Plays, by Alice Sumner Varney. Amer. Book. 

For Children of 6 and 7. 

The simplest children’s stories and rhymes arranged in dialogue 
form for playing at home and in school. They are issued in three 
small books, graded. 

Little Plays for Little People, by Noyes and Ray. Ginn. 

Book of Plays for Little Actors, by Johnston and Barnum. 
For Children of 6 and 7. Amer. Book. 

Little Dramas for Primary Grades, by Lawrence and Skinner. 
For Children of 8. Amer. Book 

The little plays in these books are derived largely from well-known 
prose and poetical selections of high literary quality. Among them 
are adaptations from Kate Greenaway, Thomas Hood, Laura E. 
Richards, Lydia Maria Child and John Ruskin. The plays may either 
be acted by the children, or be used simply as reading lessons to aid 
in securing correct tones and natural expression. If memorized and 
presented as plays, the scenery may readily be improvised from objects 
always at hand in the schoolroom. 

Plays for School Children, by Anna M. Lutkenhaus. Century. 
For Children, 8 — 10. 

Some very attractive stories are arranged here for dramatic pur¬ 
poses, such as “Master Skylark,” “Through the Looking Glass,” “The 
Lady of the Lake,” “The Fairy Minstrel of Glenmalure.” There is 
also a nature play for school children, a play for Thanksgiving Day, 
“The Crowning of the Dryads” for May Day, an Arbor Day play 
and some other attractive dramatic compositions parallel to the school 
subjects and school holidays. A short intrdouction shows how simply 
these plays may be worked out in the school or social circle. 

Fairy Tales a Child Can Read and Act, by Lillian Edith 
Nixon. Doubleday. 

For Children, 7 —9. 

The good old fairy stories and Alice in Wonderland turned into 
dialogue. The arrangement is suitable for children to read in dialogue 
and, with some assistance from older people, to make into actual plays. 


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Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, by Augusta Stevenson. 
For Children, 5— 7. Houghton. 

Three books of old-tfme children’s stories arranged in dialogue. The 
first one is for the second grade in school, that is, for about the fifth 
year. The second is for the third grade, the third for the fourth. 
These were intended for reading aloud in school, because it has been 
found that by assigning the parts, the children, with their strong dra¬ 
matic sense, read much more vivaciously. These same stories, with 
almost no scenery or properties, are excellent for short plays for 
young children to perform. 

Historical Plays for Children, by Grace E. Bird and Maud 
Starling. Macmillan. 

For Children, 10 — 12. 

A series of historical dialogues, telling the story of dramatic por¬ 
tions of the lives of notable people from Columbus to Abraham Lin¬ 
coln. The book was originally intended for school reading. There 
are indications as to dramatic action, but change of scene and proper¬ 
ties are intended to be improvised from the material at hand in the 
schoolroom. 

New Dialogues and Plays for Little Children, by Binney 
Gunnison. Hinds. 

These dialogues and plays are intended for children a little beyond 
the age of those for whom such dramatic readers as Skinner and 
Lawrence’s “Little Dramas” were written. They are for children 
from five up to ten. These sketches are quite short, and are nearly all 
taken directly or indirectly from the writings of well-known authors. 
Eight of them are humorous and the other fourteen are serious. 

When Mother Lets Us Act, by Stella George Stern Perry. 

Moffat. 

A practical book about how to have a good time by acting. There 
are simple directions for costumes and novel suggestions for playing 
statues, making tableaux, shadow plays, story plays and pageants. The 
book is intended for children to read, and they would not need very 
much help from adults in doing the things which are suggested. 

For Children, 12 to 14. 

Amateur Theatricals, by Charles Townsend. Dick. 

An inexpensive booklet. It tells how to organize a dramatic club, 
the requirements for being an amateur stage manager and prompter 
and the other officers, advice on selecting the play and casting the 
characters, suggestions for rehearsals, hints on make-up, and four 
very practical chapters upon the art of acting. A very similar book is 
“The Amateur Actor,” by*C. E. Burton. 


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Harper's Book of Little Plays, selected by Madaline E. Bar- 
num. Harper. 

Six simple plays for home use. The language is such as is desirable 
for children to speak habitually, the thought is easy of comprehension 
and the themes are chosen from folk-stories, the play-interest and 
home festivals. Among the writers are John Kendrick Bangs, Mar¬ 
garet E. Sangster and Edward Irenaeus Stevenson. There are fifteen 
helpful illustrations. 

Plays for Young People, by J. Barmby. Dick. 

These little plays were written for the entertainment of the writ¬ 
er’s own children. They are in verse. The subjects are the classical 
ones: “Beauty and the Beast,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty” and 
“Rumplestiltskin,” also an arrangement of Tennyson’s “The Prin¬ 
cess.” There is incidental music by T. Rogers. 

Adam's Dream, and Two Other Miracle Plays for Children, 

by Alice Corbin. Scribner. 

Many who are interested in the encouragement of the dramatic 
instinct among young people have wished that they could use the old 
miracle plays which were the earliest form of English drama, and 
whose simplicity would seem to lend themselves to portrayal by chil¬ 
dren. They are, however, so long, so stilted and sometimes so coarse 
that they are impossible. Miss Corbin has written three plays based 
upon the old models and illustrated in imitation of old English 
woodcuts. One is for Chrismtas, one is for Easter, and the third 
is based upon the story of Adam. They are all in verse, and the 
language is simple and beautiful. They are quite short, and the stage 
directions, which are adequate, involve very few properties. Inci¬ 
dentally, music is furnished for two of the plays. These miracle plays 
seem to be best adapted to older young people. They are very 
appropriate for rendering in churches. 

The House of the Heart and Other Plays for Children, 

by Constance D’Arcy Mackay. Holt. 

For Boys or Girls, io — 14. 

Ten excellent little plays suitable for children from ten to fourteen. 
Several in form of the old morality plays. Require little or no 
scenery. Most of them may be played out of doors. 

This is a charming collection of one-act plays given in very stately 
English, designed to meet the need for public school performances. 
Each play contains a distinct lesson—in courage, gentle manners, 
contentment, etc. The stage settings and costumes are simple, and full 
directions are given in a practical way. Several plays are adapted 
to holiday seasons, and all are ones which have’been “tried out” in 
actual experience. Mrs. Mackay combines simplicity and practicality 
with stately action and lofty ideals. 


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Little Plays, by Lena Dalkeith. Dutton. 

For Boys or Girls, 8—14 

A very excellent collection of little plays based on familiar historic 
incidents; King Alfred and the cakes; Princess and the swineherd; 
Robin Hood, etc. They are written with dignified simplicity and show 
a keen sense of humor and delicacy of fancy. They are well adapted 
in their style to children’s understanding and liking. The purpose of 
this book is to afford material for home theatricals, and it fulfills its 
aim happily. 

This is a pretty holiday edition bound in blue, with colored cover 
illustration of King Alfred. It has many colored pictures taken from 
photographs of real little actors. It is printed on good paper, with 
wide margins and in clear type. 

Four Plays for Children, by John Jay Chapman. Moffat. 
For Boys and Girls, 10 — 14. 

This book of plays is founded upon some of the famous folk tales 
and folk lore, and is for boys and girls who enjoy acting simple 
dramas. These four plays lend themselves readily to simple prepara¬ 
tion as to costume, staging, etc., and the dialogue is easily committed 
to memory. The plots are well constructed dramatically, and the 
language is stately and poetical. 

The Silver Thread and Other Folk Plays for Young Peo¬ 
ple, by Constance D. Mackay. Holt. 

For Boys and Girls, 10 — 15. 

This book of plays is founded upon some of the famous folk tales 
and folk lore of the different countries. “The Silver Thread” is 
adapted from MacDonald’s “Curdie” and is a Cornish folk legend of 
the little Gnomes of the Mountains. “The Forest Spring” is based 
upon the Italian idyl of the search for immortal youth; “The Foam 
Maiden” touches upon the Irish superstition of the mermaidens; “Th< 
Snow Witch” is the weaving of several folk tales whose underlying 
ideal is contentment. Mrs. Mackay excels all other writers in her 
dramatic plays as adapted to young people. She bases them upon 
the high ideals and race thoughts of the ages. She writes in most 
beautiful English—lucid, simple and stately. Her plots are excellent 
in their construction, and she combines fancifulness of imagination 
with rare ideality. Her directions for stage settings and costumes 
are very practical and simple. 


INDOOR GAMES, ENTERTAINING AND PARTIES 

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium, 

by Jessie H. Bancroft. Macmillan. 

This book is a practical guide for the player of games, whether 
child or adult, and for the teacher or leader of games. A wide 
variety of conditions have been considered, including schools, play¬ 
grounds, gymnasiums, adult house parties, etc. 


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Indoor Games and Socials for Boys, by G. Cornelius Baker. 

Y. M. C. A. 

This book is divided into the following sections: Indoor Games, 
Charades, Socials, Hints for Refreshments. It contains descriptions 
of an abundance of active and novel games for boys. There is a fine 
list of handbooks of games. 

Pleasant Day Diversions, by Carolyn Wells. Moffat. 

A book that must prove a veritable treasure to boys and girls clever 
enough to follow directions, for it is filled with formulae for all sorts 
of games, puzzles, card tricks and other pastimes that need little in the 
way of apparatus. Young people will also find in it useful hints as to 
entertaining, tree planting, Christmas gifts, tableaux vivants, little 
plays, valentines—in fact, it would be hard to say where its usefulness 
would stop. 

The Book of Children's Parties, by Mary and Sara White. 

Century. 

This volume is a great help to mothers, aunts and teachers whose 
pleasure it is to make the children happy on birthday, holiday, etc. 

Rainy Day Diversions, by Carolyn Wells. Moffat. 

A treasury of diverting games, puzzles, plays and recreation for 
days in the house; the book is suitable for boys and girls of all ages. 

What Shall We Do Now ? by Dorothy Canfield. Stokes. 

A book of suggestions for children’s games and employments. 
Directions for house and outdoor games, care of pets, candy-making, 
- gardening, etc. Useful hints for children of all ages. 

Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, edited 
by Albert Allis Hopkins. Munn. 

Many of the best illusions of Robert Houdini, Heller, Herrmann 
and Kellar are explained. A chapter on Ancient Magic takes up the 
temple tricks of the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman wonder¬ 
workers, as well as a number of automatons. Chapters follow on 
Science in the theatre, photographic diversions, etc. 


OUT-OF-DOORS : CAMPING 

Camping for Boys, by H. W. Gibson. Y. M. C. A. 

For Boys above 12. 

The author has conducted camps for over twenty years, and the 
object of this volume is to share with others his extensive experience. 
It is a valuable handbook of suggestions for those in charge of camps, 
as well as for boys who go camping, rather than a theoretical treatise 
upon the general subject. It deals with such important questions as 


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location and sanitation, camp equipment, the day’s program, food, the 
camp fire, tramps and over-night trips, nature study, rainy-day games, 
educational activities, etc. After each of the twenty-three chapters is 
a good list of books and pamphlets bearing upon the representative 
features of camping life. 

Vacation Camping for Girls, by Jeannette Marks. Appleton. 
For Girls above 12. 

An excellent handbook for camping. It tells what to wear, what 
utensils to make, what kind of a fire to have, what to sleep in, what 
tents to have and how to set them up, and then goes on to describe 
interesting camping employments, such as studying the birds, trees, 
fish, stars and the wild beasts of the forest. All through the book are 
homely and useful suggestions, and the girl or the parent who intends 
to camp out will find this a very reliable textbook. 

Harper's Camping and Scouting. Harper. 

For Boys and Girls above 12. 

This is a book intended to show American boys and girls how to 
make camps in their own homes and abroad, how to prepare for 
outdoor life, where to go, how to choose a camp site and make camp, 
how to live in camp, how to dress and cook and eat, how to amuse 
themselves, how to take care of themselves in the woods and on the 
trail or river, and, together with these general subjects, there are 
explanations adapted to the very different kinds of camps which 
appear throughout our country every summer. Among the small and 
practical matters dealt with are “Policing a Camp Effectively,” 
“The Removal and Burial of Tin Cans and Rubbish” and “Regard for 
Trees and Natural Beauties,” as well as elementary precautions 
against fire. Something is said, too, about fishing, and true sports¬ 
manship is insisted upon. 

The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing; Tackle Making and Fish 
Breeding, by John Harrington Keene. Lothrop. 

This is an old but good book by a professional fisherman. Its 
contents are arranged according to the four seasons of the year. 
There are practical suggestions for tackle making, illustrated by good 
wood-cuts. The book is written from the American standpoint. 

SCOUTING 

Official Handbook for Boys. Boy Scouts of America. 

Doubleday. 

Embodies the Baden-Powell plan of organization adapted to the 
United States and deals authoritatively with the whole movement, 
under Scoutcraft, Woodcraft, Campcraft, Tracks and Signaling, 
Health and Endurance, Chivalry, First Aid and Life-Saving, Games 
and Athletic Standards and Patriotism and Citizenship. 


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The Boys' Outdoor Vacation Book, by A. Hyatt Verrill. Dodd. 

The purpose of this book is to show boys how to camp out, how to 
take care of themselves in the woods, how to sail and handle' boats, 
how to make traps, Indian bows and arrows and spears, how to tie 
knots and splices, how to swim and dive and how to engage in winter 
sports. This is a useful book that will be of special interest to boys 
for the' next three months. The handicraft described is all of a 
simple character, and the directions are made more explicit by means 
of outline sketches. 

Book of the Camp Fire Girls. Camp Fire Girls. 

A wonderfully rich and varied plan of giving girls their full inheri¬ 
tance of unspoiled and unhurried girlhood. The requirements of the 
ranks are mentioned above, and the handbook tells how everything 
is done. There is a junior branch for those 8 to 12 , called “The 
Bluebirds.” 

The Field and Forest Handy Book, by D. C. Beard. Scribner. 

This book will be most useful to boys who wish to engage in scout¬ 
ing activities, but do not desire to fulfill the definite requirements 
made by the Boy Scouts. It will also be interesting to Scouts who 
wish to engage in extra activities out of doors. The book is divided 
into plans for the four seasons of the year. Some of the topics 
treated are these: How to make a herbarium, Houses for useful 
birds, How to make flying cages, How to build a cheap boat, How to 
build piers, How to build indoor playhouses, Camp cooking, How to 
build log houses, Winter camps, How to make bob-sleds. 

The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore, by Ernest Thomp- 
son-Seton. Doubleday. 

The book gives a complete scheme for a society of boys who shall 
engage in activities of Indian woodcraft. Among the fascinating 
topics are: Indian honors, degrees and names, The Indian tribal 
organization, Indian songs, Signaling and Indian signs, Some novel 
games to be played in the woods and in camp, Woodland medicine, 
Natural History, Forestry, etc. The book closes with descriptions of 
some Indian ways and stories of Indian character. There are five 
hundred drawings by the author. 

The Boy with the United States Survey, by Francis Rolt- 
Wheeler. Lothrop. 

Appealing to the boy’s love of excitement, this is one of a series 
which gives actual experiences in the different branches of United 
States Government work little known to the general public. This 
story describes the thrilling adventures of the U. S. Geological Sur¬ 
vey, graphically woven into a stirring narrative that both pleases and 
instructs. The author enjoys an intimate acquaintance with the chiefs 


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of the various bureaus in Washington, and is able to obtain at first 
hand the material for the books. There are several other equally 
good volumes in this series devoted to other departments of the Gov¬ 
ernment’s conservation work. 

Rolf in the Woods, by Ernest Thompson-Seton. Doubleday. 
For Boys, 13— J 5 - 

This is the story of Rolf, a Boy Scout, who lived with the Indian 
Quonab in the North Woods, sharing all his experiences as though 
he had been a real Indian himself. Under the wise tuition of Quonab, 
Rolf gains an intimate knowledge of woodcraft and woodlore, and 
learns at close range the way of the woodfolk. Mr. Seton fills the 
story with the vivid imagination, which is the outgrowth of his own 
unique experience in the forest, and which makes the background rich 
with beautiful description and true pictures of the life lived in the 
woods. Rolf is a good type of Boy Scout, keenly interested in doing 
everything and in finding out all he can in his novel life; he is brave 
and loyal, too. Quonab is finely drawn as a type of strong and noble 
Indian manhood, and Mr. Seton shows a keen appreciation for the 
reverence which marks the natural religion of the Indian. 

Famous Scouts, by Charles H. L. Johnston. Page. 

For Boys, 12 — 15. 

This is a biographical sketch of the lives of famous trappers, pio¬ 
neers and soldiers of the Frontier, and “their hazardous and exciting 
adventures in the mighty drama of the White conquest of the Amer¬ 
ican continent.” 

The author tells of brave “Old Put” (Israel Putnam) and his dar¬ 
ing deeds when the frontier was near the Hudson; of Daniel Boone, 
the pioneer of Kentucky fame; of Davy Crockett, the great hunter 
of bears, who defended Texan Liberty; of Kit Carson, nestor of the 
Rocky Mountains; of Buffalo Hill, the hero of Wild West fame, and 
other scouts. The book is written with a wholesome enthusiasm 
and a dramatic ring about it which fits well with the exciting life of 
the frontiersman. It is authentic as well. 


COLLECTING 

“A bone in a boy’s mind for him to gnaw and worry promotes the 
healthy activities, whether there be marrow in it or not.” 

—George Meredith. 

What Philately Teaches, by John N. Luff. 

Scott Stamp and Coin Co. 

Ah interesting booklet describing many stamps and telling stories 
about them. The author explains why certain emblems are used upon 
the stamps of certain countries, he tells how stamps are mad®, he 
explains the watermarks and makes practical suggestions about what 
stamps to collect and what varieties to avoid. 


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The Wonderland of Stamps, by W. Dwight Burroughs. Stokes. 

An excellent book introductory to an enthusiasm in collecting 
stamps. The author tells the story of many interesting stamps. He 
shows how the stamp world furnishes a complete menagerie and 
songless aviary, a synopsis of athletics, bits of history, feats of 
travel, snatches from old myths, etc. This book will be most helpful 
in guiding young collectors away from a mere desire of numbers or 
commercial value toward getting the finer uses out of stamp col¬ 
lections. Another good book in this field is Douglas D. Armstrong's 
“Boys’ Book of Stamp Collecting,” same publishers. 

Harper's Handbook for Young Naturalists, by A. Hyatt Ver- 
rill. . Harper. 

A very useful book for collectors. Some of the topics treated are 
these : The boy’s museum, How to start a collection, Naming and 
classifying collections, Birds’ nests and birds’ eggs, Skinning and 
mounting birds, Insect collections, Animal homes for the museum, 
Collecting minerals, Collecting Indian relics, Botanical collections. 
An appendix gives a simple classification of animals, insects and birds. 

Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects, by Nathan 

Banks. Supt. of Documents. 

This is one of the Bulletins of the Smithsonian Institution, and is 
sent to collectors without charge. Though not especially written for 
young people, the directions are so simple and the illustrations, num¬ 
bering nearly two hundred, are so many that those who are interested 
in gathering and mounting insects will find this the indispensable 
handbook for the purpose. At the end of this pamphlet a list is given 
of the principal large collections in America and of the best known 
periodicals and dealers in collectors' supplies. There is also a list of 
books to read upon the whole realm of the insect world. 

Boy Mineral Collectors, by Jay G. Kelley. Lippincott. 

This is a very helpful and complete book for young collectors in 
story form. It includes a description of the most common minerals, 
accounts of actual adventures in the search for them, stories of 
famous gems and a variety of information calculated to inspire the 
young collector. One of the most valuable features of the book is 
its very thorough index. 

Coins and How to Know Them, by Gertrude Burford Rawlings. 

Stokes. 

This is a superb book for a young collector. It begins with a his¬ 
tory of the very earliest coins and comes down to our own time. Many 
interesting details are told about the history of famous coins. There 
are over two hundred illustrations. A short list is given at the close 
of the approximate values of some of the commoner specimens. 


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NATURE AND ANIMAL LIFE 

GARDENING 

“The earners hump is an ugly lump 
Which well you may see at the Zoo; 

But uglier yet is the hump we get 
From having too little to do. 

“The cure for this ill is not to sit still, 

Or frowst with a book by the fire; 

But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, 

And dig till you gently perspire. 

“And then you will find that the sun and the wind 
And the Djinn of the Garden, too, 

Have lifted the hump—the horrible hump— 

The hump that is black and blue.” 

—Rudyard Kipling. 

Mary's Garden and How It Grew, by Frances Duncan. Century . 

The title of this book describes it. It is the story of a child’s 
horticultural experiences from the time she makes the acquaintance 
of a German gardener in December until she puts her “garden to 
sleep” the following November. The modus operandi in garden 
making is given so clearly that any child can follow it, and the story 
is charming meanwhile. 

Little Gardens for Boys and Girls, by Myrta Margaret Hig¬ 
gins. Houghton . 

This was written for children to read. After some introductory 
chapters, the author, who has helped hundreds of children to make 
gardens, describes the tools and plans, when and how to begin the 
work of each season of the year and some of the practical problems 
and difficulties of making things grow. 

The Beginner's Garden Book, by Allen French. Macmillan . 

This is a handbook of gardening, intended especially for young 
people of the upper grammar grades. It is lavishly illustrated and 
covers every possible difficulty in connection with the growing and 
care of plants. The handbook begins with the autumn work, goes on 
to the winter, describes gardening under glass, and the last hundred 
and forty pages of the book are devoted to the work of summer 
gardens. The book closes with a planting list which describes alpha¬ 
betically each of the favorite flowering plants and vegetables in full, 
gives a planting table by months and a table of the length of life and 
space values of vegetable seeds. It would be hard to think of a 
manual more complete and excellently arranged for the interest of 
young gardeners. 


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The Garden Book for Young People, by Alice Lounsberry. 

Stokes. 

In the same charming manner as in “The Wild Flower Book for 
Young People,” Miss Lounsberry treats the subject of gardening. In 
the convincing guise of a naturally told story, she presents the prob¬ 
lems and pleasant surprises of two young people, Joseph and his elder 
sister, aged thirteen and seventeen, respectively. They go to live at 
the Six Spruces, in the suburbs of a large city, where, though their 
pocket money and their space are limited, they decide to have a 
garden bed. They prepare the ground and seedlings; they transplant 
flowers; they combat insects and succeed in creating a sensible and 
artistic garden. The young person who reads this story cannot but 
feel the charm of outdoor work, and the joy of making things grow. 

The Book of Useful Plants, by Julia Ellen Rogers. Doubleday. 

A simple and interesting handbook which completely covers an 
important field. The world of plants is a wonderland to young people. 
The growing of a plant, from seed to seed, is a wonderful experience. 
Grains and other plants have interesting histories. Boys and girls are 
learning to know and to grow plants. The author has had all these 
thoughts in mind in writing this book. The sub-divisions of the book 
are as follows: Bread plants; forage plants; sugar plants; plants 
whose seeds we eat; plants whose leaves and stems we eat; plants 
whose roots and tubers we eat; plants whose seed vessels we eat; 
beverage plants; narcotic plants; fibre plants; plants that serve many 
or special purposes. There are many photographic illustrations. 


NATURE 

“There was a child went forth every day, 

And the first object he looked upon, that object he became. 

“The early lilacs became part of this child, 

And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, 
and the song of the phoebe bird. . . . 

The horizon’s edge, the flying sea crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and 
shore mud, 

These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now 
goes, and will always go forth every day.” 

—Walt Whitman. 

A Guide to the Trees, by Alice Lounsberry. Stokes. 

In writing this volume, the author has sought to combine the neces¬ 
sary amount of scientific knowledge regarding trees, while not losing 
sight of the character and recognized place each tree holds in senti¬ 
ment and tradition. An exquisite feature of the book is the great 
number of drawings and illustrations in color, 


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The Fairyland of Science, by A. B. Buckley. Appleton. 

The work of water and ice, the formation of coal, the life and 
mutual aid of bees and flowers, the wonders of sound, etc., are so 
clearly and entertainingly set forth as to lead young readers into a 
genuine fairyland of marvels. 

Insect Life, by J. H. Comstock. Appleton. 

Guide to a knowledge of insects through study of insects them¬ 
selves. Clear, scientific, admirably illustrated. Directions for collect¬ 
ing and preserving specimens are also given. 

Nature Study and Life, by Clifton F. Hodge. Ginn. 

The one best book to arouse an intelligent enthusiasm for nature 
study. It has to do with all the common forms of animal and plant 
life, homemade cages, aquaria, aviaries, etc. 

Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners, by 
Mrs. Florence Augusta (Merriman) Bailey. Houghton. 

One of the best books for a beginner. Contains illustrated keys, 
bird biographies and lists of reading, migration lists and detailed 
suggestions of what to observe in the field. No colored plates, but 
many good cuts. 

Bird Homes, by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Douhleday. 

The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in 
the eastern United States, with hints on the rearing and photograph¬ 
ing of young birds. Illustrated with photographs from nature by the 
author. Forty-five excellent nest illustrations, all half or full page, 
and several in colors. Good book for the beginner. 

Butterflies and Bees, by Margaret W. Morley. Ginn. 

Excellent elementary book. Precede with “Bee People,” by Morley, 
and follow with “Insects Stories,” by Kellogg. Two cheap and 
handy pamphlets for field use are “Common Butterflies and Moths of 
America and Europe” and “Common American and European In¬ 
sects.”—Olcott. 

Methods of Attracting Birds, by Gilbert H. Trafton. 

Houghton. 

Published under the auspices of the National Association of Audu¬ 
bon Societies. A handbook on the most approved methods of at¬ 
tracting wild birds about houses and providing for their needs in 
winter and summer. 

The chapter headings are: “The Need and Value of Attracting 
Birds,” “Nesting-houses,” “Attracting the Winter Birds,” “Drinking 
and Bathing Fountains,” “Planting Trees, Shrubs and Vines,” “Bird 
Protection in Schools,” “Bird Photography.” The book contains 
some very valuable tables, such as the names of birds arranged ac- 


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cording to the different species of fruit which they eat. It also con¬ 
tains a good index. There are numerous pictures illustrating the 
text, such as observation boxes, nesting-houses, cat guards, shelters 
and other photographs too numerous to mention. 

Birds of the World for Young People, by Charles R. Knight 
and Ella Hardcastle. Stokes. 

This is a book containing simple and interesting information about 
nearly all birds of the world, by one of our greatest ornithologists. It 
avoids as much as possible Latin and technical terms, but at the 
same. time it is systematic, presenting the various families, sub¬ 
families, etc., in their logical order. Many authenticated anecdotes 
are given to illustrate the habits and nature of the birds treated. The 
lithographic plates show over 200 birds from all parts of the world, in 
the natural colors of plumage. 

The Bee People, by Margaret W. Morley. McClurg. 

Miss Apis Mellifica, with her wonderful eyes, her queer tongue, her 
useful furry legs and her marvelous ways, is described for us in 
delightfully simple fashion by Miss Morley, who has also made many 
instructive and interesting small illustrations. The last chapter is on 
Bombus, the Bumblebee. 

The Children's Book of Birds, by Olive Thorne Miller (Mrs. 
H. M. Miller). Houghton. 

Intended to interest children in birds by an account of their habits 
of eating, sleeping, nesting, etc., with illustrative anecdotes, many 
from original observation.—Audubon Society. 

Though Mrs. Miller is herself an expert, she tells us that she has 
been careful to have the latest and the best authorities for the state¬ 
ments made, and presents a list of them. The author, while never a 
sentimentalist, constantly teaches kindness to birds. There are both 
colored and plain plates. 

A Guide to the Wild Flowers, by Alice Lounsberry. Stokes. 

Covers nearly 500 plants—more than any similar book. The flowers 
are treated in the order of their soils, from moist to barren. Family, 
odor, color, range and time of bloom are given. Indices of Common 
Names, Scientific Names and Colors are provided. The sixty-four 
colored reproductions in the book are of great value. 

Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll. Century 

This is an excellent book, which contains a fund of general infor¬ 
mation about the sea. The author wisely recognizes the fascination 
which the subject in itself holds for boys, so contents himself with a 
straightforward giving of facts which are of universal interest. He 
deals with such material as the origin of the ocean, the science of 
waves and tides and currents, the building and rigging of ships, early 
voyages and explorations, plant and animal life of the sea, etc. It is 
a large quarto volume, well and copiously illustrated. 


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The Stars and Their Stories, by Alice Mary Matlock Griffith. 

Holt. 

There is no other book just like this one. It contains the legends, 
old and new, in verse and prose, of the greater stars and the con¬ 
stellations. This is certainly a very attractive introduction to astron¬ 
omy. There are simple charts by which each star and constellation 
may be found. The author also gives a short sketch of the history 
of astronomy, tells how some of the stars were discovered, and in an 
appendix tells what is meant by the different magnitudes and names. 
There are a few very choice pictures. 

The Children's Book of Stars, by G. E. Mitton. Macmillan. 

A delightful introduction to astronomy. The colored pictures of the 
suns and planets are very charming. All the great facts about 
astronomy are very simply and interestingly told. Of this book one 
may repeat the old expression, “It reads like a story book.” This is 
the best first book in astronomy that we know of. 

Plant and Animal Children: How They Grow, by Ellen 

Torelle. Heath. 

There are two parts, one dealing with plants, the other with ani¬ 
mals. The book explains in simple language the essential facts and 
principles of growth and development. It shows the function of root, 
leaf, flower and seed; the different modes of Scattering seed; the 
various methods of fertilization, and leads on through a series of 
lessons on reproduction in animal life. Although intended for school 
use, it would be an excellent introduction to biology for home reading. 

PETS AND OTHER ANIMALS 

“Four feet carry two feet 
Swiftly here and there; 

Two feet must give four feet 
Quite the best of care. 

Four feet sometimes weary 
Just as two feet do; 

Four feet are so faithful, 

Two feet must be too.” 

—Constance Johnson. 

Stories of Brave Dogs—Retold from St. Nicholas. .Century. 
For Boys, or Girls, 8 — 12. 

A good collection of stories calculated to show the brave, loyal side 
of dog nature, and to bring out the fact that the dog is our friend and 
helper, the one who “shares our family life, and knows us indoors 
and out.” There is the story of Owney, the Post Office dog “who did 
not attach himself to a single man or family, but to all the men of 
the postal- service, and for years traveled about the country taking 
care of the United States mail bags.” There are the tales of “Little 
Man Friday” a mongrel pup, and the school-room dog, as well as of 
piany other interesting canine friends. 


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When Mother Lets Us Keep Pets, by Constance Johnson. 
For Children, 7 — 10. Moffat. 

A few simple rules for the care of animals which children them¬ 
selves can carry out. Among the animals mentioned are dogs, cats, 
rabbits, guinea pigs, squirrels, chickens, ponies and fish. Many of 
the directions are given in pleasant little rhymes. 

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell. Burt. 

For Children, 9 — 12. 

The horse gives his own account of his life with good and bad 
masters; the purpose of the book being to instill care and considera¬ 
tion for animals. Many copies have been distributed among draymen 
and cabmen. Children find the story very interesting. 

Krag and Johnny Bear, by Ernest Thompson-Seton. Scribner. 
For Boys, 10 — 13. 

This is a collection of stories adapted and abridged from Ernest 
Thompson-Seton’s longer book, “The Lives of the Hunted.” 

The story of how Kootenay Ram escaped Old Scotty, the hunter, is 
delightful in picturesque description. There is a splendid picture 
drawn of the magnificent strength and beauty of this mountain ram, 
and fine bits of pathos in the telling of Scotty’s regret at seeing the 
great creature die. 

Johnny Bear is delightful; a jolly story of a mother bear and her 
cub. Of all the animals, the bears are perhaps the most grotesquely 
human. 

Animal Secrets Told— A Book of “Whys,” by Harry Chase 
Brearley. Stokes. 

For Boys and Girls, 9 — 14. 

This book aims to direct the natural curiosity about animals, by 
going beyond the mere shape of various eyes, ears, noses, tails, and 
telling why they happened to be as they are. The reasons and uses 
for the slits in cats’ eyes, for the large ears of elephants, for the 
shape of the horse’s mouth, for the squirrel’s bushy tail and many 
other similar members make fascinating reading. The book will help 
to train the reader’s mind in observation, making him stop and think 
about what he sees. 

Goldfish—Aquaria—Ferneries, by Chester A. Reed. 

Doubleday. 

A little treatise on the care of an aquarium and the many pets that 
may be placed therein, with some suggestions as to arranging and 
caring for ferneries. This seems to be the only handbook of this 
interesting hobby. The author discusses the various form of aquaria 
and shows how to make one. He talks of the selection, the breeding, 
the habits and the diseases of goldfish, and gives two chapters to 
other fish in the aquarium. There ^re abput fifty photographic illus-. 
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The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. Century. 

For Boys or Girls, io — 14. 

The Jungle Book is, possibly, the very best of Rudyard Kipling s 
good works. He tells these queer tales with a strong vitality, and 
with a human interpretation of wild animal nature, which carries 
even the most literal of us along with him. . There is a strange and 
weird beauty in the story of Mowgli, the little man-cub,, who lives 
with the Jungle people till the law of his nature drives him back to 
mankind. The story of Toomai of the elephants is very powerful, 
and the meeting of those great beasts in the midnight of the jungle— 
the elephant dance which Toomai saw—lingers long in one’s memory. 

This is one of the most universally good books in the literature for 
childhood. It is splendid for reading aloud. 

Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders. Amer. Baptist. 

For Children, 9— 14. 

This is a very interesting story of a dog, supposed to be written by 
the dog himself. It relates the happy experiences of a nondescript 
cur, rescued from a cruel master, and brought up in the home of the 
Morrises, who loved all sorts and conditions of animals. The narra¬ 
tive gives in a sensible way many instances of the power of intelli¬ 
gence and kindliness in dealing with the creatures of home, field and 
forest. The story is a good one, with a well-constructed and attract¬ 
ive plot, and furthers the main purpose of the book, which is to 
establish in children a love for, and understanding of, the. dumb 
creatures. Many practical suggestions are given and much intelli¬ 
gent discussion is interwoven with the narrative. There is a sequel 
called “Beautiful Joe’s Paradise.” It is even better. 

Wild Life Under the Equator, by P. B. Du Chaillu. Harper. 
For Children, 10 — 12. 

The hunting of hippopotami and gorillas is most interestingly nar¬ 
rated by the great explorer, who also tells about the method employed 
in catching elephants, about snake-charming, and so forth. 

Animals of the World, by Charles R. Knight and Tudor Jenks. 
For Children, 10 — 12. Stokes. 

A book of animals for young people, attractive in form and enjoy¬ 
able, yet of especial educational value. It gives all the facts about 
mammals that are within a young reader’s grasp, avoiding as much 
as possible Latin and technical terms. It- contains such anecdotes 
as help to show the habits of animals, and yet is free from “tall 
yarns” of doubtful accuracy. It presents the wonderful scientific 
truths about the animals, their structure and evolution, and their 
characteristics in simple and interesting style. Finally, it is syste¬ 
matic—a feature of importance generally neglected in “natural 
histories.” Beginning with the apes, it deals with the lower forms 
last, and groups allied families together. An excellent guide to 
further reading is given. The large number of illustrations, all in 
color, not only lend interest, but are of great advantage in supple¬ 
menting the descriptions. 


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Lobo, Rag and Vixen, by Ernest Thompson-Seton. Scribner. 
For Children , 6 — 12. 

The story of Lobo, the gigantic leader of the remarkable pack of 
wolves, is told in a powerful fashion, and in spite of the account of 
his diabolical cunning, Mr. Seton wakens a feeling of sympathy for 
the great beast, who dies in solitary dignity, never owning his defeat. 
In strong contrast to this is the pretty story of Molly Cottontail and 
her sturdy son Raggylug. Some of the most beautiful touches Mr. 
Seton gives are in this tale of the training of a young rabbit. Vixen 
tells of the training of a young fox by his mother. 

Wonder Book of Horses, by James Baldwin. Century. 

For Boys, 10 — 14. 

Eighteen stories of winged steeds and war horses, of knights- 
errant and heroes. Among them are: The dancing horses of Sybaris, 
The enchanted horse of Firouz Schab, The black steeds of Aidoneus, 
The eight-footed slipper, The horse of brass, Swift and Old-gold. 

Training of Wild Animals, by F. C. Bostock. Century. 

For Boys, 10 — 14. 

Habits, traits and methods of training wild animals, by a famous 
animal trainer. 

Heroes and Great Hearts and Their Animal Friends, by 

John T. Dale. ' Fairfax Pub. 

For Boys or Girls, 8 — 14. 

This book develops interest in scores of famous and heroic men 
and women who, in their relation to the helpless, have set an example 
that should be an inspiration. The numerous brief anecdotes of great 
soldiers, statesmen, philanthropists, poets, explorers and authors, in 
which their friendship and love of animals is briefly and vividly set 
forth, will exert a potent influence upon the young. The book is 
fully worthy of the dedication that the author has made: “To those 
young in years or young in heart who aspire to kindliness without 
ostentation and gentleness without servility.” 


TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE 

“Islands of purple story, lit with the Westering gleam, 

Washed by the unknown whisper, dreaming the world-wide dream.” 

—Alfred Noyes. 

The Romance of Modern Exploration, by Archibald Williams. 

Lip pine ott. 

This book is a straightforward account of the romantic side of 
modern exploration. It is' written in the direct style which boys 
enjoy, and the romance lies in the very hard facts of the explorer’s 
experiences in out-of-the-way, unknown portions of the world. 



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Such places as the wilds of Africa, Turkestan and Thibet, mid-Asia 
and the Himalayas, and the Golden Roofs of Timbuctoo are visited 
in imagination with the explorers who have blazed the trail into 
these lands of romance. There is a good account of Livingstone, a 
chapter about the bandits of the Great Desert, etc. Mr. Williams 
omits tiresome details, but tells in most interesting manner the 
unusual things and the romantic episodes in the explorer’s experi¬ 
ences, while at the same time he sticks to the “plain” facts of the 
hardships encountered. He tells about romantic adventures without 
“romancing.” 

Children's Book of London, by G. E. Mitton. Macmillan. 

This is an attractive book with colored illustrations describing 
some of the interesting sights of the greatest city in the world—the 
Tower, the Zoological Gardens, Westminster Abbey, the Lord 
Mayor’s Museum, the King’s Palace, etc. It contains also several 
historical stories. 

Some Strange Corners of Our Country, by C. F. Lummis. 

Century. 

Mr. Lummis describes the wonders of the Southwest—the Grand 
Canon, the Petrified Forest of Arizona and the Desert. He tells of 
the Moquis in their seven seldom-visited Pueblo cities, of the Nava- 
jos and other Indian tribes, with their strange customs, dances and 
magic.— Arnold. 

Children's Book of Edinburgh, by Elizabeth W. Grierson. 

Macmillan. 

No better subject could be chosen as introduction to history than 
the grey city of the North, and it would be hard to find a book which 
manes a more charming introduction both to history and travel than 
this. The author emphasizes especially the human side of Scotland’s 
capital, and manages not only to take us through the streets and 
into the old historic places, but also into the very lives of the people 
of the past. A good companion volume is the “Children’s Book of 
London.” A similar story, about New York, is Esther Singleton’s 
“The Children’s City.” 


The Boys' Book of Explorations, by Tudor Jenks. Doubleday. 

These are true stories of the heroes of travel and discovery in 
Africa, Asia and Australia from the dark ages until the close of the 
nineteenth century. The book does not include polar discovery. 
Thus this volume gives not only brief and lively sketches of the 
well-known explorers of our own time, but traces briefly the history 
of exploration from the beginning. Incidentally, these related 
sketches form a sort of history of three lesser known continents. 
Among the explorers whose history is told are Livingstone, Baker, 
Stanley, Rockhill and Sven Hadin. 


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HOME-MAKING 

When Mother Lets Us Sew, by Virginia Ralston. Moffat. 
For Girls, 7 — io. 

“When Mother Lets Us Sew” is a practical little treatise on sewing 
written for girls seven to ten years of age. Each process is told in a 
very simple way and illustrated plainly so that an earnest little girl, 
reading the directions carefully, cannot fail to see quickly “just how 
to do it”; and, if she perseveres, she will soon be able not only to 
dress her doll in party clothes, but to help make her own clothing. 
The book is pleasantly written and is delightfully illustrated with 
black and white outline pictures of the little girl at work, and there 
are many cunning little rhymes about her work scattered through 
the book. 

How to Dress a Doll, by Mary H. Morgan. Altemus. 

For Girls, 8 — n. 

This is a practical little series of talks about sewing, which tell in 
a plain way how to make clothes for a doll. The first chapter con¬ 
tains some simple suggestions as to the use of sewing implements— 
thimble, scissors, needles, thread, etc. This is followed by an excel¬ 
lent description (with illustrations) of different stitches and terms 
used in sewing craft, and all this leads to the making of patterns and 
the construction of dresses, etc., for the doll. 

A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl, by Caroline French 
Benton. Estes. 

For Girls, 6 — 12. 

A book of simple recipes for a small girl unlike the ordinary cook¬ 
book in combining careful directions with interesting narrative. In 
the introduction we are told that “once there was a little girl named 
Margaret, and she wanted to cook.” Her mother, grandmother and 
aunts decided to teach her, and we share the lessons with Margaret. 
The recipes are easy, and the list complete. It is arranged under 
four headings: “What Margaret Made for Breakfast,” “What 
Margaret Made for Luncheon,” “What Margaret Made for Dinner,” 
and “Margaret’s School Luncheons.” The recipes are selected with 
a view to economy, but no essential is overlooked. Handy lists of 
materials and necessary utensils are included. 

Saturday Mornings, by Caroline French Benton. Estes. 

For Girls, 6 — io. 

A little girl’s experiments and discoveries. An interesting and 
valuable series of twelve chapters, most of which originally appeared 
in the magazine “Good Housekeeping.” They deal in a sensible and 
attractive way with those practical housekeeping problems which 
every girl should understand. 


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When Mother Lets Us Cook, by Constance Johnson. Moffat. 
For Girls, 7 — 12. 

The very simplest book for the youngest housekeepers. There are 
many recipes for making good things, and these are worded much 
more carefully than recipes usually are. A careful little girl could 
make many of these things without much help. There are many 
little verses giving general housekeeping rules scattered through 
the book. 

Spool Knitting, by Mary A. McCormack. Barnes. 

For Children, 6—JO. 

Few exercises arouse more interest in children than knitting, 
because they can do it so easily and so well. This is a book for 
mothers by means of which they can show the children how to begin 
with simple chains and mats and finally to make dolls’ hoods and 
sweaters, and even larger articles of clothing. 

Lessons in Cooking Through Preparation of Meals, by Eva 

Roberts Robinson, Helen Gunn Hammel. 

„ . American School of Home Economics. 

For Children, 12 — JO. 

A good introduction to cooking is the practical problem of getting 
a definite meal. This book gives all the recipes required for all the 
meals in a home for an entire year, beginning with September. 
There are practical hints upon costs and utensils, and there is a 
good bibliography. 

Camp Cookery, by Horace Kephart. Outing. 

For Boys, 12 — 16. 

An admirable handbook for a practical camper, illustrated with 
drawings of camp utensils, outfits, etc. The chapter headings are as 
follows: “Provisions,” “Utensils,” “Fires,” “Dressing and Keeping 
Game and Fish,” “Meat,” “Fish and Shellfish,” “Cured Meats,” 
“Eggs,” “Bread Stuffs and Cereals,” “Vegetables,” “Beverages and 
Desserts.” The directions are practical as regards the making of 
good things to eat with the simplest utensils. There are a number of 
valuable tables: one of ration lists, another of measures, another of 
outfits data. At the end of the book are blank pages for new recipes. 

HANDICRAFT 

King of two hands, he does his part 
In every useful toil and art; 

A heritage, it seems to me 
A king might wish to hold in fee. 

—James Russell Lowell. 

Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys, by A. Neely Hall. 

Lothrop. 

Modern school men tell us that the best introduction to handicraft 
is the play interest. Mr. Hall, who has other books on craftsmanship 


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which are so popular, has never before confined himself entirely to 
playthings which may be made by young companions in their own 
homes. The descriptions are careful, and the working drawings 
adequate. Among the toys suggested are windmills, home-made 
kites, model aeroplanes, toy motor boats, toy railways, home-made 
tops, mechanical toys, electric toys, home-made doll houses and a 
miniature home with furniture. 

The Handicraft Book, by Annie L. Jessup and Annie E. Logue. 

Barnes. 

This is a school handbook which will be helpful to girls who wish 
to learn how to work at home with cord, raffia and reed. The book 
shows how to make all kinds of things—chains, bags, mats, boxes 
and baskets. 

Practical and Artistic Basketry, by Laura Rollins Tinsley. 

Barnes. 

A practical book for boys as well as girls. It describes the various 
materials used, gives sketches of each method of weaving and excel¬ 
lent pictures of the finished work. 

The Art Crafts for Beginners, by Frank G. Sanford. Century. 

A practical book, with sketches and working drawings, on thin 
woodworking, pyrography, sheet metal working, leather working, 
book binding, simple pottery and bead work. We know of no book 
which opens up more fields of interest in handicraft than this. 

Beginning Woodwork at Home and in School, by Clinton 
Sheldon Van Deusen and Edwin Victor Lawrence. 

Manual Arts. 

A small but useful handbook. The authors show just how to go to 
work. They tell how to put up a shop and take care of tools, how 
to lay out work, how to plane, saw, chisel and join, and how to 
make furniture. The phrase, “the next step,” so often used, indicates 
how explicit and careful are the directions. 

Why My Photographs Are Bad, by C. M. Taylor, Jr. Jacobs. 

Most of this very practical volume is devoted to the mistakes so 
familiar to those of us who have attempted photography. The short 
chapters are accompanied by pictures illustrating the failures 
described. Examples of twelve successful photographs and informa¬ 
tion with each about the plate and time of exposure will give encour¬ 
agement to the beginner.— Arnold. 

Handicraft for Girls, by Idabella McGlauflin. Manual Arts. 

An elementary course in needlework, basketry, designing, textile 
fibers and fabrics and home decoration. Though written primarily 
for teachers, the book would prove valuable to mothers of growing 
girls. Directions are simple, instructions complete. 




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The Boy Mechanic: Seven Hundred Things for Boys to Do. 

Popular Mechanics. 

“Popular Mechanics” is said to be the_ most popular magazine 
among boys in America. This is a collection of descriptions taken 
from that magazine of hundreds of things which boys can make and 
do. Some of the articles are not furnished with very practical 
details or working drawings, but many of them are very suggestive, 
and there is an astonishing variety and novelty about them. Toys, 
tricks and mechanical devices, both for outdoor and indoor use, are 
described. 

The Construction and Flying of Kites, by Charles M. Miller. 

Manual Arts. 

The author believes that kite-making is one of the best forms of 
home occupation. After a little sketch of the history of kites, he 
gives most careful working drawings as to how to make them of 
every shape and size. The book closes with a description of a kite 
tournament. 

Manual Training Toys for the Boys’ Workshop, by Harris 
W. Moore. Manual Arts. 

A collection of forty-two projects overflowing with “boy” interest. 
A popular boys’ book that is truly educational. . The projects are 
all new in the manual training shop. The text gives instructions for 
making each project, and treats of tools and tool processes. The fol¬ 
lowing is a partial list: Darts, buzzers, tops, guns, whistles, bow and 
arrows, swords, boxes, telephone, windmills, kites, water wheels, 
water motors, pumps, boat, pile driver, kite string reel, cannon. 

American Boys' Handy Book: Jack of All Trades, by Daniel 
C. Beard. Scribner. 

Two favorite handbooks of play-handicraft by a veteran bookman 
and out-door man who understands boys. Full of novel ideas and 
well furnished with specifications and drawings. 

Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler. Putnam. 

A practical book on woodworking for amateurs of all ages. It 
does not carry the work far in any one line, but gives a very practical 
start in many. 

Wiiat a Girl Can Make and Do, by Lina Beard and Odelia D. 
Beard. Scribner. 

This is one of the Beard handicraft books which, like all the 
others, is simple and practical. It is divided into two parts—what a 
girl can make; that is, handicraft, and what she can do; that is, 
games and entertaining. This is not a book that tells how to make 
the ordinary articles of a handicraft course, but it is entirely devoted 
to novelties. Among the objects mentioned are things to be made 


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out of Easter eggs, sweet grass, photographs, vegetable animals, 
priscilla rugs, basket weaving, spools, etc. The section of games also 
involves handicraft, but of a very simple character. 

Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes, by S. A. Collins. Century. 

To the boys who are interested in the manual arts and the science 
of aviation this book will prove a veritable treasure-house of good 
things. The author has combined in a very happy manner scientific 
instruction along both theoretical and practical lines. He shows how 
boys may construct model aeroplanes that will fly. The book is 
profusely illustrated with drawings, diagrams and photographs. 

With the Men Who Do Things, by A. R. Bond. 

Popular Mechanics. 

A description, in story form, of the way skyscrapers are con¬ 
structed, ships are launched and tunnels are made. The book is 
full of incidents and descriptions of inventions and mechanical con¬ 
trivances, told simply but carefully. A supplement along the same 
line is entitled “With Rod and Pick.” 

The Book of Wonders. Presbrey Syndicate. 

There is room in the library of a boy for a scrap book like this. 
The plan of the book is to take up almost every field of juvenile 
interest, such as machine, forestry, animal life, mechanics, music, 
modern inventions, natural phenomena, the human body and manu¬ 
facture, in the form of questions, those given being the ones which 
boys and girls are supposed to ask most often. Terse answers are 
given, usually illustrated by attractive half tones. The result is an 
astonishing collection of miscellaneous information which tends to 
lead to further reading. 


FICTION 

FAIRY TALES 

“A land where the bird of morning never ceased to sing.” 

The Fairy Ring, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. 

Doubleday. 

The editing is worth the price of admission, for the Preface gives 
a sure entrance into Fairy Land. The words of introduction seems 
to me too good to be commented upon. “The stories are golden 
apples that grew on the tree in the King’s Garden. * * * The 

moment you have plucked the golden apples from the magic tree 
in the King’s Garden, you will say farewell to time and space as 
readily as if you had put on a wishing cap or blown an elfin horn 
to call a fairy host.” So try the golden apples and see for yourself 
what you find in Fairy Land, Little Real Folk. 


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The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang. Longmans. 

Favorite collection of standard fairy tales, including Little Red 
Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow-white and Rose-red, Aladdin 
and the Wonderful Lamp, Prince Darling, The Story of Pretty 
Goldilocks. The “colored fairy books” are of unequal merit, some 
of the volumes containing a preponderance of revolting folk tales. 
The “Blue Fairy Book” has been selected as one of the best of the 
series. 

Fairy Stories, by Hans Andersen. 

Harper , Century or Platt & Peck. 

“The fairy tales of Andersen are sweet and wholesome beyond 
those of any other writer.” This is, no doubt, partly due to the fact 
that he himself was one of the most sweet and wholesome of men. 
He is still remembered in his native country as one who lived 
wisely and loved children. His fairy stories linger around the 
hearth fire and have to do with household pets and little children. 
It was his glory to have written the stories of a people, which is 
much better than to write their laws, for stories such as his make 
laws less needful. 

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Lippincott. 

The Grimm brothers were not as gentle as Andersen, but they were 
more lively. They had a keen delight in incident, and many of their 
stories are ingenious. One of the best editions is that edited by Mrs. 
E. V. Lucas, because of the charming illustrations by Rackham. 
Barring a few horrible incidents, this is an excellent selection of 
these famous stories. 

The Wonder Clock, by Howard Pyle. Harper. 

Any undertaking of Mr. Pyle’s is a guarantee of distinction in 
material, style and production, and these four and twenty fairy tales, 
one for each hour of the day, are no exception. The illustrations 
are among the author’s best, and Miss Katherine Pyle supplies 
charming little verses for the different hours. 

Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights, edited by E. Dixon. 

Putnam. 

The text of the present selection from the Arabian Nights is that 
of Galland, 1821 , slightly abridged and edited. The edition is de¬ 
signed virginibus puerisque.— E. Dixon. Mr. Dixon presents these 
famous Oriental stories most acceptably, and Mr. Batten’s remark¬ 
able illustrations are all that can be desired. His genii are genii in¬ 
deed, and his fairy princesses creatures of grace and beauty. 

These splendors of the opulent East are part of the heritage of 
every child; Sinbad’s gems and jewels, Ali Baba’s treasure chamber, 
Aladdin’s cave—how poor would childhood be without them.— Pren¬ 
tice and Power. 


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Cruikshank Fairy-Book, by George Cruikshank. Putnam. 

Four old-fashioned fairy tales illustrated by the “veteran George 
Cruikshank.” Andrew Lang says of him, “He indeed may justly be 
compared to Hogarth, since in tragic power and intensity he occa¬ 
sionally comes nearer to him than any artist of our time.” Consider¬ 
ing the illustrations, the printing and the binding, it is altogether a 
delightful fairy and picture book. 

Pinocchio's Adventures, by C. Collodi. Caldwell. 

Story of a wooden marionette who meets with many adventures 
in his efforts to become a real boy. “Of all the fairy stories of 
Italian literature this is the best known and the best loved. The 
name of the marionette hero is familiar in every household of 
northern and central Italy. In its whimsical extravagance, its quaint 
humor and its narrative style, the story appeals to both old and 
young.”— Preface. 

Book of Fables and Folk Stories, by H. E. Scudder. Houghton. 

Probably the most satisfactory collection, and a criterion in style. 
The Preface contains a fine argument for the use of such literature 
with little children. Illustrations in the spirit of the text. 

Granny's Wonderful Chair, by Frances Browne. McLaughlin. 

This is a delightful little collection of fairy stories written by a 
woman who was born blind. They are told in clear, simple language, 
and the word pictures are full of life and color. Granny’s wonderful 
chair which carried the little snow flower to the King’s court, and 
at her bidding each night tells a tale to the King and his court, is 
a very quaint and clever way of binding these fairy pastorals together. 
The whole plan of the book makes it a beautiful story source for the 
story-teller. 

Peter and Wendy, by J. M. Barrie. Scribner. 

This, perhaps the most popular of all modern fairy tales, is based 
on the author’s well-known volume “The Little White Bird.” It is 
to be hoped that almost all the children in the world have seen Peter 
Pan upon the stage. This book, however, will surely be enjoyed, not 
only by those who love Maude Adams, but also by those who have 
never heard of her. The thought of taking a family of children 
to the land of childish romance and bringing them into contact 
with the fabled heroes of that country was an ingenious one, and 
it has been delightfully worked out. 

The Golden Spears, by Edmund Leamy. Fitzgerald. 

Irish fairy tales written in beautiful English and with tender 
sentiments. Although only seventeen years old, the book is already 
a classic. 


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MYTHS AND LEGENDS 

“One gift the fairies gave me: (Three 
They commonly bestowed of yore) 

The love of Books, the Golden Key 
That opens the Enchanted Door; 

Behind it Bluebeard lurks, and o’er 
And o’er does Jack his Giants kill, 

And there is all Aladdin's store— 

The Books I loved, I love them still!” 

—Andrew Lang. 

The Stars in Song and Legend, by Jermain G. Porter. Ginn. 

Poetry and legend are certainly the right introduction to astron¬ 
omy. The book is full of sketches of the constellations placed against 
fainter drawings of the objects for which they are named. With 
each is given its story. There are many charming fables and fancies, 
verses and descriptions, besides. 

Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Plants, 
by Charles M. Skinner. Lippincott. 

A most interesting book, giving a wonderful variety of charming 
legends about all the most familiar living things. The plants are 
named in alphabetical order, and there are a number of charming and 
appropriate illustrations from the masters of art. 

Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

Houghton or Conkey. 

Our great American novelist possesses a peculiar charm as a story¬ 
teller. When his imagination plays about a character or a story, it 
transforms it into a new creation.. This is true in Hawthorne’s 
retelling of the old Greek Myths in “The Wonder Book.”. The 
adaptation is both beautiful and picturesque, and his touch gives a 
fantasy and delicacy of interpretation found in no other collection. 
The story of Pandora is told with exquisite poetic power, and the 
narrative of Bellerophon, the Winged Horse, is delightful in its 
suggestions of freedom. The Miraculous Pitcher is one of the 
immortals in English literature in its tender portrayal of the kind old 
people Baucis and Philemon. 

The Story of Siegfried, by James Baldwin. Scribner. 

This book is one of the best stories of the famous German hero, 
Siegfried. The story is told in a beautiful and romantic way, and in 
a straightforward, sensible fashion which appeals to boys. The 
narrative is rich in detail, color and incident, but swift in its forward 
movement. The plot is well constructed and full of dramatic action. 
The forging of the sword Balmung, the killing of the dragon, the 
finding of Brunhilda are all told with a vivid power worthy the acts 
of the favorite world hero, Siegfried, 


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Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, by T. W. 
Higginson. Macmillan. 

Hawthorne, in his “Wonder Book,” has described the beautiful 
Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of 
the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years 
about the islands of the Atlantic deep. * * * The order of the 

tales in the present work follows roughly the order of development, 
giving first the legends which kept near the European shore, and 
then those which, like St. Brandan’s or Antiilia, were assigned to 
the open sea, or, like Norumbega or the Isle of Demons, to the very 
coast of America. * * * Every tale in this book bears reference 
to some actual legend, followed more or less closely.— Preface. 

Norse Stories, by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Dodd. 

The picture of the making of the world in the beginning is full of 
the weird, lonely picturesqueness of the northern lands. It is char¬ 
acterized by great simplicity and poetry of language. There is a 
fine description of Ygdrasil, the Great Ash Tree. Oh! Little Chil¬ 
dren, won’t you open your wonder eyes as you read about this great 
world-old tree, and won’t you open them wider still when you see 
the little smiths underground with their wonderful skill forging the 
hammer for Thor! And won’t your knees shake and your hearts 
quake when you see Thor wielding that wonderful hammer, and 
hear the mighty thunder echo? And then your wonder eyes will 
grow soft and dreamy when you read about Balder, because, “when 
men’s hearts were white like the light and lives as clear as day, it 
was because Balder was looking down upon them with soft clear 
eyes that were open windows to the soul of God!” This story is 
told with exquisite sweetness and dignity of interpretation. 

The Story of Roland, by James Baldwin. Scribner. 

Boys love Roland, and why is it? Because he is a noble and 
romantic character. The friendship between Roland and Oliver 
makes its appeal to the idealism and chivalry of boy nature. It is a 
good answer which Roland makes to Charlemagne who asks in sar¬ 
casm of the ragged little Knight, “Who is Mother’s carrier; and 
who her cup bearer?” “My right hand is her carrier, and my left 
her cup bearer!” “And has she soldiers and watchmen and min¬ 
strels—this wonderful mother of yours?” “Indeed she has! These 
two arms are her soldiers, and these eyes are her watchmen, and 
these lips are her minstrels!” The book is a strong telling of a 
noble character. 

The Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, by Mary 
Macleod. Stokes. 

This book is a good selection from and simplification of the stories 
in Malory’s King Arthur. Miss Macleod is a wise editor and com¬ 
piler in that she has made her narrative correspond as nearly as 
possible with the original in thoughts and in text, while adapting it 
to the comprehension of children ten to twelve. She tells the stories 
plainly, without author’s comment or superfluous trimming. 


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The Odyssey. Done in English prose by S. B. Butcher and 
Andrew Lang. Collier. 

It is to be hoped that there are many children who will continue to 
enjoy the fairy-like incidents, the stirring adventures and the wave¬ 
like music of this great classic. There was never a more rhythmic 
translation, even in verse* than this one in prose. For those who are 
not quite old enough to enjoy a literal translation, the excellent 
version by A. J. Church is recommended. 

Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle. Scribner. 

From first to last Howard Pyle takes you with him into the very 
heart of the Green Wood, and you hear the lilt of the Merry Men 
as they sing, live with them in their merry adventuring, feel the 
beauty and freedom of the forest, the jolly roughness of these jolly 
mem The pictures are vivid, full of the sturdy ring of the times, 
the jousting of these hearty men, and yet the tenderness of these 
stout hearts, the goodness and kindliness to all in trouble, the fearless 
wit and clever justice meted out to the selfish rich! Outlaws? Aye! 
but honest-hearted men for a’ that! 

Stories from Wagner, by Joseph Walker McSpadden. Crowell. 

A charming rendering of the Wagner stories for children. Con¬ 
tents : The ring of the curse; The Rhine-gold; The war maidens; 
Siegfried the fearless; The downfall of the gods; Parsifal the pure; 
Lohengrin, the swan knight; Tannhauser, the knight of song; The 
master singers; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; The Flying Dutch¬ 
man; Tristan and Isolde. 

Guide to Mythology, by Helen A. Clarke. Baker. 

For young readers who want a comparative list of the legends 
and myths of all countries, this book will be a delight, not only 
because it is well illustrated from copies of famous sculptures and 
paintings on the subjects, but the tales themselves make fascinating 
reading aside from their educational and historical value. 


STORIES 

“If sailor tales to sailor tunes, 

Storm and adventure, heat and cold, 

If schooners, islands and maroons, 

And Buccaneers and buried Gold, 

And all the old romance, retold 
Exactly in the ancient way, 

Can please, as me they pleased of old, 

The wiser youngsters of today: 

So be it, and fall on!” 

•—Robert Louis Stevenson. 


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For Children of All Ages 

Children's Book, edited by Horace Elisha Scudder. Houghton. 

A treasure-house of stories and poems from the best literature for 
children. There are fables, ballads, old fairy tales, stories from Hans 
Christian Andersen, and from the Arabian nights’ entertainments; 
there are the marvelous adventures of Baron Munchausen, Gulliver’s 
account of his voyage to Lilliput, the renowned history of Goody 
Two-shoes, tales of ancient Greece and other famous stories. 

If a child could have but one story-book, a better choice could 
scarcely be made than this. 

Tales of Laughter, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. 
Smith. Doubleday. 

A comprehensive collection of laughable tales gathered from well- 
known sources and from out-of-the-way places. 

Tales of Wonder, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. 
Smith. Doubleday. 

The tales in this book are of many kinds of wonder, of black 
magic, white magic, and grey,, ranging from the recital of strange and 
superhuman deeds and experiences to those that foreshadow modern 
conquests of nature and those that utilize the marvelous to teach a 
moral lesson. 

These two are uniform with the “Fairy Ring” and “Magic Case¬ 
ments” in “Crimson Classics.” 

Children's Stories from the Masters, by Maude Menefee. 

Rand. 

In simple language Miss Menefee has told the* stories of Brown¬ 
ing’s Pippa, and Saul and David, of Dante’s Beatrice, and of 
Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, and Mignon.— Coussens. 

The Children's Treasure Trove of Pearls, by Mary W. Tiles- 
ton. Little. 

An excellent collection of stories which have been gathered from 
sources of a past generation and hidden away in folk lore of various 
countries of thirty to sixty years ago. It includes some simple 
realistic stories not well known, and some very excellent versions of 
old folk tales, like “The Three Goslings,” /‘The Pancake” and the 
“Honest Penny.” These have not lost their original quaintness in 
the retelling. 


For Children, 7—9 

The Christmas Angel, by Katharine Pyle. Little.. 

This is the story of a little girl’s journey through Wonderland in 
search of a live boy in Mrs. Kringle’s house. Mary and Gingerita 
(her live gingerbread doll, who shares her fortunes) pass through 


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Toyland, the Farm Country and the Doll City in their quest. All 
these queer fairy people do their best to keep the human child from 
reaching Kris Kringle’s house, for they fear his grandmother, and 
finally Mary and Gingerita find themselves locked up in the Old 
Rag Mother Doll’s house where the Christmas Angel is imprisoned. 
They all get away, and the Christmas Angel, who is the messenger 
of Mother Kringle, leads them to her. She gives Mary the Christmas 
Angel as her live toy. Then Mary wakes up and finds it was a dream 
country! The real live toy which Christmas brings is the baby! 

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday. 

“These, ‘O Best Beloved,’ are some of the Just So Stories from the 
High and Far off times when everybody started fair.” They tell 
about how the camel got his hump, how the rhinoceros got his skin, 
the elephant’s child, the sing song of Old Man Kangaroo, the cat 
that walked by himself, the crab that played wit to the sea, the 
butterfly that stamped. This is the first volume Mr. Kipling has ever 
illustrated, and the pictures (fifty-five in number) are of the utmost 
importance. It is a delightful book. 

An Old, Old Story Book, by Eva March Tappan. Houghton. 

The “old, old” Bible stories are well adapted to children. They are 
simple, full of action and of the rugged vitality and vivid incident 
which marks the primitive folk tale. More than this, they are the 
finest of hero tales, and teach powerful lessons in morality in the 
objective way which children love. Miss Tappan’s adaptation is a 
good one in which she makes no attempt to bring down the Scrip¬ 
ture to the children, but has given the stories “in the words of the 
Bible,” only “arranged like other books in paragraphs rather than 
verses.” The book includes the story of the Creation, of the Flood, 
of Abraham, of Joseph, of the Children of Israel in the Promised 
land, and many others. 

The Adventures of a Brownie, by Dinah Mulock-Craik. 

Burt, Crowell. 

This is the familiar and well-loved household tale of the queer little 
Brownie who lived under the lump of coal in the coal cellar and who 
did all manner of queer tricks on the “grown-ups” who did not 
believe in Brownies! The delight in the story is finding out the 
queer ways in which the funny Brownie taught people wholesome 
lessons and helped the children in their simple good times. 

The story is one in a thousand for little children in its wholesome 
humor and quaint home-like fancy—a child classic in its pure idyl 
of child life written in clear, simple language. 

The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book, by A. B. Paine. 

Harper. 

Mr. Paine writes in his delightful vein of Mr. Coon, Mr. Possum 
and Mr. Crow. The book is always funny, and Mr. Conde's pictures 
are in their way as good as the text 


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Short Stories for Short People, by Mrs. Alicia Aspinwall. 

Dutton. 

Colonel Higginson says in a preface to this book, “These stories 
are bits of that pure imagination of which the best types are to be 
found in Grimm’s collection of German household tales, and of 
which the line was so well continued by Hans Andersen. Many 
have tried to follow in the same path; but none, it seems to me, 
have done it so well as Mrs. Aspinwall. Her stories have that pure 
impossibility in which children delight, that fresh vigor which 
carries attention along, and that suggestion which even children 
vaguely feel of deeper meanings.” Humorous stories, good to read 
aloud. 

The Magic Forest, by S. E. White. Macmillan. 

A delicate, coddled little nine-year-old boy who, in spite of his 
delicacy, loves “God’s great house of out-of-doors” better than any¬ 
thing else, in a somnambulistic sleep walks off the train on which 
he is being taken a journey for his health into a Canadian forest 
where he spends the year among the Indians. The book has great 
charm of style, and is beautifully printed and illustrated. 

Anne's Terrible Good Nature, and Other Stories for Chil¬ 
dren, by E. V. Lucas. Macmillan. 

The atmosphere of these eleven tales is decidedly English, but 
they are so unusually good that our children will read them with 
enjoyment, notwithstanding the unfamiliar setting. The Thousand 
Threepenny Bits, The Anti-Burglars, and the uncommonly funny one 
called The Monkey’s Revenge, are among the number.— Arnold. 

Lisbeth Longfrock, by Hans Aanrud. Ginn. 

“Lisbeth Longfrock,” a translation of “Sidsel Sidsaerk,” aims to 
give American and English children the pleasure which Hans 
Aanrud's delightful original has given to children and their elders 
in Norway. 

The story centers about the life of a little peasant girl on a Nor¬ 
wegian form and sseter. Two lively boys are her companions in 
herding, and they, with various four-footed animals of strong indi- 
dividuality, contribute comic and dramatic elements to the book. 
Crookhorn, the prideful goat, is especially diverting. 

For Children, 9—12 

Tell Me a True Story, by Mary Stewart. Revell. 

Bible stories for the children told by a gifted story-teller. Dr. 
Henry Van Dyke says: “This little book does a useful and much 
needed thing in a simple and beautiful way. It brings the spirit and 
meaning of Christianity down, or I should rather say up, to their 
level. It is not only plain in its language, but clear and natural in 
its thought and feeling.” 


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When the King Came, by George Hodges. Houghton. 

On account of its simple, picturesque style, its pure and beautiful 
English, and its reverent attitude, this story of the life of Jesus for 
young people is to be most highly commended. The author’s endea¬ 
vor is to follow the order of the Gospel Harmony, and to approach 
as far as possible the Scripture attitude and language. 

The Castle of Zion, by George Hodges. Houghton. 

This is a collection of the best Old Testament stories told with the 
same simplicity and vigor as the New Testament stories by the same 
author in the book entitled “When the King Came.” This collection 
will be of especial interest to young children who are for the first 
time reading and becoming acquainted with the great Bible stories. 

Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a 
Short Life, by J. H. Ewing. Burt. 

Jackanapes.—We love the golden-haired army baby who lives to 
fight and die with glory for Old England. The atmosphere of the 
tale is most charming. 

Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot.—In the beautiful English country dwell 
old Daddy Darwin and Jack March, the little workhouse boy. A 
delightful anecdote is told about the pigeons, of whom Jack says, 
“I love them tumblers as if they was my own.” 

The Story of a Short Life.—The inspiring story of the life of a 
boy—a short life filled with glorious bravery. This English army 
sketch is so sad that it should be read by the parent before deciding 
to give it to a child.— Arnold. 

The Little Lame Prince, by Dinah Mulock-Craik. Heath. 

Gifted Miss Muloch wakens a world of interest and sympathy in 
the hearts of children, as she details the wondrous story of the most 
beautiful Prince who came at last to the King and Queen of Nomans- 
land. What the little old woman, clothed in gray, did for the Little 
Lame Prince, what an excellent King he became, let the children 
read and they will know, and learn also “One cannot make one’s 
self, but can help a little in the making of somebody else.” 

“It is a genuine fairy work interlocked with the unexpected, alive 
with marvels. No child will be sadder, and many will be happier, 
for learning without knowing it how to bear suffering if it shali 
come to him.”—New York Public School Library List. 

Fanciful Tales, by Frank R. Stockton. Scribner. 

The reputation of all humorists is said to be transitory. We are 
beginning to recognize that Stockton was a little master in the realm 
of story-telling to children. Such stories as “The Bee-Man of Orn,” 
“The Griffin and the Minor Canon” and “Old Pipes and the Dryad” 
contain not only a charm of style and humor, but an inescapable but 
painless moral. 


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The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts, by Abbie Farwell 
Brown. Houghton. 

This is a book of charmingly written tales of quaint legends of 
friendship between Beasts and Saints. It shows how kindliness con¬ 
quers fear and is a good means of counteracting the common fear 
which children have concerning animals. The story of St. Francis 
is beautifully and tenderly told. The strange legend of St. Kenneth, 
the little child who grew up with the sea gulls, is given with rare 
sympathy. 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. 

Macmillan. 

It is quite safe to say that Alice is the most popular story in child 
literature. She is every child’s friend, and her journeys through the 
dear old land of Nonsense are full of innocent frolic and fun. She 
meets so many funny folks in such queer places who do such odd 
things 1 It is not strange that she always expects out-of-the-way 
things to happen. Mr. Carroll has an imagination which is truly 
child-like in its fantastic conception and a charm in picturing strange 
happenings which make him unique as a story-teller. 

The Nurnberg Stove, by Louisa de la Ramee. Fenno. 

The wonderful porcelain stove, the “dear Hirschvogel,” which is 
the pride and comfort of the poor German household is sold by the 
improvident father. The story of how the little August follows the 
fortunes of this beloved Hirschvogel of his, until he finds himself in 
the presence of the great Emperor is one which must be told in the 
author’s own beautiful way in order that it may come home to the 
reader. 

Toby Tyler; or Ten Weeks with a Circus, by James Otis. 

Harper. 

Toby Tyler, ten years old, runs away with a circus. The difference 
between the glitter and romance of the circus as it appears to an 
outsider and the reality as seen from the inside is shown in a very 
graphic way. While the story is most interesting and pleasantly 
exciting to young readers, it is genuinely wholesome. 

It gives a near view of the circus life, “behind the scenes,” which 
delights a boy’s heart, while giving him some good lessons. The 
story is full of humorous situations, which is partly the secret of its 
popularity. 

Rocky Fork, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Lotlirop. 

The interest in this book arises from the importance rightly 
attached to books that faithfully and attractively picture the folk-life 
of former generations. The rural school of the Middle West in the 
decade preceding the Civil War is portrayed in the happiest possible 
way, with the pleasures, ambitions, tasks, dress and home-life of its 
pupils. There are exciting scenes, as well as pathetic and humorous 


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ones, and the book is rightly called one of singular power and charm. 
It is the story of a little country girl, the Doctor’s daughter. It is 
sweet with the scent of clover bloom and new-mown hay. The illus¬ 
trations, by Frank P. Merrill, picturing such scenes as the old district 
school, are delightful in their reminiscences of the simple life in the 
Middle West fifty years ago. 

Jolly Good Times, by Mary P. Wells Smith. Little. 

It not only deserves its title, but the further praise of. being pro¬ 
nounced a jolly good book. The Kendall children and their play¬ 
mates and neighbors lived in the Connecticut Valley not far from 
Deerfield. 

The naturalness of the stories, their brightness, their truth to boy 
and girl character give the volume a charm for any child; and their 
accurate portrayal of farm-life gives the stories particular value to 
young people who live in cities and are not familiar with the fine 
times their country cousins have. 

This story has several sequels. 

The Flamingo Feather, by Kirk Munroe. Harper. 

The exciting experiences of a French lad during the settlement of 
Florida by France in the sixteenth century. Many incidents hinge on 
the faithful friendship existing between a young Indian and the 
hero.— Arnold. 

The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

Houghton. 

It is only partially true to call this story a sad one, for it is filled 
from cover to cover with the Christ-like spirit of love and helpful¬ 
ness. It tells of little Carol Bird, a patient crippled child, who 
brought sunshine to all those about her, and who touches every heart. 
The account of the Christmas dinner which Carol herself gave for 
the nine little Ruggles children is very amusing. After the happy 
day, while Christmas hymns are sounding, the dear little girl slipped 
away to her “ain countree.”— Arnold. 

The William Henry Letters, by A. (M.) Diaz. Lotkrop. 

Written by William Henry during the two years he was away at 
school. One of the best books for boys, and they love it. It has high 
standards, abounds in homely common-sense, and is very funny. 

Life of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. American Book. 

Strange, surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, mariner, who 
lived for twenty-eight years on a lonely island. “If you should ever 
have a story of your own to tell and want to tell it well I advise you to 
take Robinson Crusoe for a model; and if you do you will not waste 
words in painting sunsets, or in decorating storms and sea-waves.” 

— D. G. Mitchell. 


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Feats on the Fiord : A Tale of Norway, by Harriet Martineau. 

Dutton. 

Romance of Erika, a Nordland peasant maid. Full of the charm of 
the old northern life and touched with peasant superstition—a sur¬ 
vival of the old Norse folklore. 

The Sundering Flood, by William Morris. Longmans. 

How the “Red Lad" overcame the evil folk and of his search for 
the maid of the Hart Shaw Knolls. The childlike imaginative qual¬ 
ities, the romance and chivalry, make the book most delightful and 
wholesome reading for boys and girls. 

The Swiss Family Robinson, by J. D. Wyss. Dutton. 

The experiences of this shipwrecked family are thus happily char¬ 
acterized by the Spectator: They did sail in the tubs, and train 
zebras and ostriches for riding, and grow apples and pines in the 
same garden; and why shouldn’t they? 

Little Lord Fauntleroy, by F. (H.) Burnett. Scribner. 

Mrs. Burnett’s well-known story of the little American boy who in 
the course of events becomes heir to an English earldom is included 
in this list because of the beautiful and kindly spirit shown by the 
child to those about him. 

The Rose and the Ring, by William Makepeace Thackeray. 

Estes. 

A fireside pantomime for great and small children. The children 
and the world owe this delightful absurdity to a little girl friend of 
Mrs. Thackeray, as it was written to amuse her during an illness. 
The rose and the ring each had the power of making its wearer 
charming in the eyes of any beholder. Naturally as they changed 
hands some complications of the affections arose. 

For Children, 12—14 

King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin. Heath. 

“A Styrian legend setting forth in classic English prose the world- 
old story that happiness lost by avarice is to be won by virtue only.”— 
G. E. Hardy. Good to tell or to read aloud. 

Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. Burt. 

His voyage to Lilliput, his stay with the little people, and his adven¬ 
tures later among the giants of Brobdingnag, are classic. Written as 
a political satire, the narrative has served a gentler purpose than its 
original one. The littleness of the Lilliputians and the greatness of 
the giants appeal strongly to children. 

“And lo! the book from all its end beguiled, 

A harmless wonder to some happy child.” 

— Bulwer-Lytton. 


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The Peterkin Papers; by Lucretia P. Hale. Houghton. 

The “Peterkins” are a family of well-meaning but stupid folk, who 
spend half of their time getting into difficulties and the other half in 
getting out of them. The telling of this tale should win for Lucretia 
P. Hale the gold medal. For clever foolishness this book has few 
equals 1 To create one consistently foolish character is an art, but to 
originate and carry through a lifetime of experience a whole family 
of Peterkins who are all equally and individually stupid, is the mark 
of genius! Mrs. Peterkin puts salt in her coffee and not till the 
Lady from Philadelphia is consulted does it occur to any of the 
troubled family that she may remedy her mistake by pouring another 
cup of coffee! A whole family, not one of them ever sees the com¬ 
mon-sense side of any situation! And the worst, or the best of it is 
that one catches familiar glimpses of one’s own lapses into foolish¬ 
ness ! 

Two Little Confederates, by Thomas Nelson Page. Scribner. 

This is a good story of the Civil War told in a genuine way which 
makes one live through their varied experiences with the two boys. 
The mellow fun of the Sunny South creeps in through their adven¬ 
tures, but the sound pluck and loyal bravery of the Southern nature 
is seen all through the story. In those hard times on the plantation, 
boys knew what it meant to go without food and clothing, and not to 
make a fuss about it, either. Willie and Frank captured a conscript 
guard instead of the real deserter, and let him go scot-free. They are 
true little brothers, too, when it comes to caring for the Yankee sol¬ 
dier in his last hours. They’re worth knowing, these two Little 
Confederates. 

The Widow O’Callaghan's Boys, by Guiliema Zollinger. 

McClurg. 

This is a story of a jolly and capable widow and of her loyal fam¬ 
ily of seven boys. It has been an inspiration to many young people 
who were poor because it is the story of the brave and successful 
struggle of a family left without other capital than their pluck for 
success. It is a story of sturdy, level-headed effort to meet the 
world on its own rather severe terms. No strokes of miraculous 
good luck befall these young heroes, but they deserve what they gain 
and the story is told with so much originality that it is quite as 
interesting as the tales where success is won by more sensational 
methods. The widow O’Callaghan is a great philosopher and the 
humor of the book is irresistible. It deserves, as it is, to be in its 
twenty-fourth edition. 

Gabriel and the Hour Book, by Evaleen Stein. Page. 

A most pleasant book giving the story of a boy in a mediaeval mon¬ 
astery. It tells a good deal about the life of the monks and about the 
craftsmanship of manuscript, but the story is a very pretty one, 
charmingly told, full of romance and ending happily. The illustra¬ 
tions are in tint. 


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Boy Pioneers, by Noah Brooks. Scribner. 

This is a story of the settlement of “Bleeding Kansas” in the time 
of the feud between the Border and Free State Men. It’s good and 
sturdy in the narration of the hardships, the overcomings, the joys 
of real first-hand pioneer life. “Boy Emigrants” is a fine companion 
book. 

A Boy of the First Empire, by E. S. Brooks. Century. 

The story of Philip and of his ultimate connection with that great 
hero of all boyhood, Napoleon, is a story worth while! The large 
understanding which Mr. Brooks shows of this great character in its 
weakness, as well as in its strength, together with his sympathetic 
knowledge of boyhood, enables him to give a very rare glimpse of 
Napoleon. And as for the picturing of Philip, the boy of the First 
Empire, in his impulsive daring, his reckless bravery and good luck, 
as well as his unswerving loyalty to his friend and emperor—it’s just 
splendid. 

Stories from Old French Romances, by Ethel M. Wilmot- 
Buxton. Stokes. 

Contains “Aucassin and Nicolette,” “Constans,” “Roland and 
Oliver,” “Death of Roland,” “William the Werwolf,” etc. The stories 
are charmingly told and some of them are not found elsewhere. 

The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper. Burt. 

“The incidents of this tale occurred between the years 1740 and 

1745 _Broad belts of virgin wilderness-afforded forest covers to 

the noiseless moccasin of the native warrior, as he trod the secret and 
bloody warpath.” Cooper’s style is, according to present-day stand¬ 
ards, somewhat pompous and stilted, but all boys should read this 
account of the New York settlers’ warfare against the Iroquois and 
know Deerslayer, the picturesque frontiersman— Arnold. 

At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald. 

Lippine ott. 

This is the story of Diamond and his adventures with the North 
Wind. North Wind is portrayed sometimes as the tiny fairy who 
blows the primrose, again as the glorious woman whose home is all 
Out-Doors, and who sweeps through the skies with little Diamond 
nestled in her hair. Her beautiful friendship for the boy, who is one 
of “God’s fools,” is a wonderful symbolism of strength and tender¬ 
ness closely interwoven with this fanciful plot; and the narrative of 
Diamond’s home relationships, and the incidents of his everyday life 
with his father, mother, baby and Big Diamond, the horse, are told 
with great simplicity. 

“Mr. MacDonald, in his fairy tales, touches spiritual truths 
through allegories. The reader rises from the readings with a 
stronger faith in things unseen and a deep feeling of the inadequacy 
of things mundane.” 


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Dandelion Cottage, by C. W. Rankin. Holt. 

Dandelion Cottage is a very good story about four young girls and 
the way in which they kept house one summer vacation in an old 
abandoned cottage. They paid their rent by pulling up all the weeds 
in the yard. They furnished the house with the old furniture and 
things which their mothers gave to them, and they managed to make 
it very attractive. They had some comical and troublesome times 
with their near neighbors, and met with a good many failures in 
learning how to keep house in their play home, but they had such fun 
that, on the whole, they proved their idea to be a good one. It is a 
very natural story, and has many practical suggestions for a good 
time at playing house which any group of girls may follow. 

Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. De Wolfe. 

“Heidi" is the charming story of a little Swiss girl. Her life in a 
rough mountain hut, her experiences in a city home where she meets 
another little girl of very different bringing up, and the changes that 
come as a consequence into both their lives are told with dramatic 
interest and vigor. The conversations are vivacious and natural, and 
the primitive life on the Alpine pastures is happily contrasted with 
the more conventional mode of living into which the little unso¬ 
phisticated mountain maiden comes like a breath of upper air. 

Masterman Ready, by Frederick Marryat. ' Burt. 

An old time desert island story, still enjoyed by seamen and the boys 
and girls. 

There is something coarse and pungent, like sea salt, about all that 
Captain Marryat tells. They have both stimulated and satisfied the 
desires of many a lad who thought he wanted to run away to sea. 
Though written in a by-gone manner, they have not lost their power 
or their wholesomeness. 

Castle Blair, by Flora L. Shaw. Little. 

This is the story of a happy-go-lucky family of children who lived 
with their Uncle in old Irish Castle Blair. The mischievous, fun- 
loving brood run wild in the old castle, for their father and mother 
are in India, and their Uncle is a studious man who knows nothing 
about children. With the advent of Cousin Nessa, a young girl with 
motherly ways and gentle wisdom of heart, things are changed. She 
wins their warm Irish hearts and under her loving guidance they 
become more like folks. They are very original and their play life 
together is charmingly told by Miss Shaw. They play out all sorts 
of funny ideas in the most unique and childlike way. 

Nights with Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris. 

Houghton. 

These stories are the Simon pure of the negro classic so far as 
source material of their folklore is concerned. The tales are very 
characteristic of the folk who originated them. They are quaint, 


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whimsical with an incongruous sense of humor, and a childlike crude¬ 
ness of vocabulary which makes the word picturing delightfully 
vivid. Nowhere does one find such a curious, childlike, humorous 
personification of the animal creation as in these folk tales of the 
negro people. The customs and characteristics of these “born story 
tellers” are well brought out in Uncle Remus, who is a composite 
photograph of the best old Southern darkey. 

This book is peculiarly adapted for reading aloud and as such is 
suited to all ages, from the little six-year-old to the grandfather in 
the family circle. It is one of the universal books. There are a 
number of whimsical illustrations. 

Merrylips, by Beulah Marie Dix. Macmillan. 

This book is dedicated “To every little girl who has wished for an 
hour to be a little boy.” It is the story of a little maid in the days of 
Roundhead and Cavalier, and tells how she played the part of a boy 
in those troublesome times. She proved to be a brave, true-hearted 
one, too, when put to the test. When she became the Little Lady 
Sibyl, she was sweet and stately, and glad that her boyish days were 
a thing of the past. The story is written in a lofty style which gives 
a clear idea of the ceremonious speech of the olden days of Merrie 
England. 

The Little Duke, by Charlotte M. Yonge. Macmillan. 

This is the story of “Richard the Fearless,” who became Duke of 
Normandy when he was eight years old. This story tells of the peril 
of his childhood and his captivity at the court of France. His father, 
William of Normandy, was treacherously killed by Arnulf of 
Flanders. When Richard was a man in middle age, a broken down 
pilgrim sought his hospitality and protection from his enemies. 
Richard recognized Arnulf of Flanders, who had treacherously 
killed his father, and later had tried, through joining with Louis, to 
destroy Richard’s rule and win his kingdom. With magnanimity the 
noble Richard forgave his old enemy and gave him a home until his 
death, thus carrying out his father’s ideal of true Christianity. 

Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa M. Alcott. Little. 

The first visit of Polly, an old-fashioned girl, to a large city, and 
her experiences when, six years later, she returned to earn her living 
by giving music lessons. 

Miss Alcott describes the “good old fashions” which make a woman 
truly beautiful and honored and render home what it should be—a 
happy place where parents and children, brothers and sisters, learn to 
love and know and help one another. 

It is not rash to say that Miss Alcott’s stories were never more 
appealing to young readers than at the present moment. The very 
genuineness of character and incident, the homely appeal to all that 
is best in young womanhood and young manhood have made Little 
Women and their successors classics in their kind. 

This is one of the best of Miss Alcott’s stories, and ranks, perhaps, 
second only to Little Women. 


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The Little Grey House, by Marion A. Taggart. Doubleday. 

The story of the Little Grey House and the family who lived in its 
hospitable shelter is a wholesome one. It tells of the ups and downs, 
the grey days and gold, of the family of an impractical genius. The 
mother and four children are obliged to live the from-hand-to-mouth 
existence which usually is the lot of a family whose head is a 
dreamer. The mother is wise and sensible and the children a jolly 
set of youngsters who learn to make the best of To-day and have 
a good time together. They keep open house for their nextdoor 
neighbors, who are two nice boys, and the young people have a lot 
of fun in spite of hard luck. 

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Stokes. 

The Secret Garden is said to be the best book written during the 
year 1911, and one which will unquestionably live in American 
literature. An old English garden becomes the scene of a delightful 
story of joyous child life that appeals not only to children, but to 
every one who has the child spirit. 

“The secret garden, walled in and locked for years, is almost a 
character in the story. Dickon, who can make anything grow and is 
loved by all living things; dear, wise, mother Sowerby; Colin, the 
invalid; the wilful Mary; Ben Weatherstaff, the Gardener; and by 
no means least, the joyous little robin, who also plays his part—all 
are figures to delight the imagination and to live in memory indefi¬ 
nitely.” 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

Houghton. 

Rebecca Rowena Randall of Sunnybrook Farm is a fascinating 
little girl who does all sorts of lively things, at home and in boarding- 
school. 

This impulsive young girl, with her warm heart and original ways, 
first upsets these two maiden ladies, in their prim routine of spinster- 
hood, and afterwards wins them into larger and lovelier ways of 
living. “Rebecca could not be kept in the background. It refuses to 
hold her.” With her friends, her aunts, her schoolmates, she was 
always a leader, because her resourcefulness and willingness to help 
out made every one turn to her. 

The Adventures of Billy Topsail, by Norman Duncan. 

Rev ell. 

This is one of the best stories for boys which has been written in 
recent times. It is the story of the adventures of a boy who lived in 
Newfoundland. His life is full of adventurous and hazardous perils. 
Billy is a clean, whole-souled boy, full of the everyday heroism and 
daring which is inbred in a lad whose very playthings are the winds 
and the waves. The narrative of Billy’s journey through the terrible 
storm to carry Her Majesty’s mail to the island is one of the best 
tales of simple heroism and exciting incident. 


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The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Houghton. 

Thomas Bailey Aldrich always enjoys telling his stories so much 
that his cheeriness of mood is sure to impart itself to his readers. 
This story of his own boyhood, which he spent in his Grandfather 
Nutter’s old home in the New England village of Riversmouth, is 
very delightful. The “bad” boy proves to be a very natural lad who 
has a good capacity for mischief, which finds an outlet in a lot of 
harmless pranks and fun in company with four or five other com¬ 
rades. The keen but kindly delineation of the characters in Grand¬ 
father Nutter’s household is full of quiet humor, and all the sport of 
the boys in school and out is told with such a sense of clean fun and 
clever wit that one almost hears the chuckle with which Mr. Aldrich 
recalls his boyhood days. Every boy should read this book. 

Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge. 

Scribner. 

It is remarkable that Mary Mapes Dodge, when quite young, and 
before she had been abroad, could have written the best story that 
has ever been written for boys and girls about Holland. The present 
generation loves this book as well as have its forebears. The boys 
and girls who live with Hans and Gretel will feel as though they too 
had spent happy hours skating on the Grand Canal. The excursion 
on skates of the five boys through Holland on vacation is enough to 
send our Boy Scouts over to do likewise! The story of the race for 
the silver skates is fine. And Gretel proves to be the Queen of the 
Skaters! The color, the moving throng, the light and laughter, the 
rich and the poor, the fun and the serious of it! It is like a jump 
into the real Holland! The glimpses of family life are well given in 
the story of honest Hans Brinker and his family. The beauty of the 
story is its genuineness! 

For Children, 13—15 

The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale. 

Century, Altemus. 

Edward Everett Hale was a man who loved America and Amer¬ 
icans with true loyalty, so he wrote with the deepest appreciation 
this great short story of Philip Nolan, the man who lived for sixty 
years “without a country.” 

Philip Nolan, a fine young officer in the “Legion of the West,” was 
seduced by Aaron Burr to play the traitor to his country. Sum¬ 
moned to trial by court martial, this lad, to whom the words United 
States were scarcely a reality, in a moment of rash anger cried out, 
“D—n the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United 
States again!” His punishment was the literal fulfillment of this 
wish, and for sixty years Nolan lived on board the different naval 
vessels, condemned to entire exile from his native land, never 
allowed to hear nor to see any news concerning the United States. 
It is a fine, stimulating story, which will arouse the patriotism of any 
boy or girl. 


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Mother Carey's Chickens, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

Houghton. 

The story of how Mother Carey cared for her four Chickens in 
the Little Yellow House in Beulah, Maine, is just as full of lively 
incident and sweet sensible experience as it can be. Mother Carey is 
a genius in the dignity and wisdom of true mother love which guides 
her family of growing boys and girls into ways of contentment and 
self-reliance, and through the daily living with them shows them 
how to get happiness out of every experience. The happy home life 
in the Yellow House draws within its radius all the village people, 
young and old, and the pleasant glow of its hearth fire lends its 
warm cheer to many a simple “good time," unknown to Beulah before 
the advent of Mother Carey and her Chickens! The characters of 
warm-hearted, fascinating Nancy and the shy, artistic Olive are 
excellent types of girlhood, and their friendship is full of interest of 
the right sort for other girls. 

Betty Leicester, by Sar.ah Orne Jewett. Houghton. 

“The everyday life of a dear, everyday child sent to spend the 
summer in a New England neighborhood.” 

It is a charming story of a wholesome fifteen-year-old girl who 
spends a summer with her two maiden aunts in the New England 
village of Tidewater. She has been the close companion of her father 
in his scientific travels about the world. This has made Betty a good 
deal of a cosmopolitan; but her heart longs for a real home where 
she can live “like folks.” The simple and delightful way in which 
the wish is gratified makes up the story of Betty’s summer. The nar¬ 
rative of her life with her Aunt Serena and Aunt Mary in the old- 
fashioned house, her friendship with the quiet country girls and 
boys, the pleasure which her keen wit and warm heart devise, by way 
of breaking the stupid monotony of life for the young people, is full 
of innocent fun and everyday happiness. 

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dutton. 

Robert Louis Stevenson is past master in the art of plot making 
and in his choice use of English. Treasure Island is a story of 
pirates, and of the exciting search for the lost treasure buried in 
this uninhabited spot. Mr. Stevenson frankly states in his introduc¬ 
tion that this is a blood-thirsty tale, full of the rough sea life of the 
Spanish Main, and advises no one to read it who does not care for 
this sort of thing. The plot is close knit and goes forward from 
beginning to end with swift action. The characters live and move 
with a realism almost startling. Bill, the old Sea Dog ; Silver Jack, 
the one-legged villain—a most remarkable villain with his black 
heart and his pleasant smile—are brought into strong contrast with 
the fine characters of the Doctor, the Squire and Jim Hawkins, who 
is the hero. 

Treasure Island is pre-eminent among stories of its type. It 
enthralls readers of all ages—all who retain a love for romance or 
who feel the fascination and mystery of the se^. 


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Master Skylark, by John Bennett. Century. 

The story of a sweet little singing lad who became the companion 
of the great Will Shakespeare, and who knew, as an humble subject 
may know, the immortal Queen Bess. Young people will get a good 
idea of the life of Shakespeare’s day from this delightful story. It 
tells the story of a young English lad, called Master Skylark, because 
he had a “skylark ’prisoned in his throat.” He was stolen by the 
Master Player, who tried to make him famous through his beautiful 
voice; but all in vain, for the simple lad, who was at home with gentle 
Will Shakespeare, and who sang before good Queen Bess, was never 
happy till he reached his mother again. “Mother, mother, dear. I 
ha’ been to London Town, and I ha’ seen the Queen, but mother, I 
ha’ never seen the place where I would rather be than just where 
thou art, mother, dear!” The story is a fine one. It is told in simple 
and stately fashion, with vivid picturing of the times and customs. 

Cadet Days, by Charles King. Harper. 

It is a good thing for a boy to know what West Point life is like, 
and this book, written by a graduate and a captain in the army, 
describes the customs and ideals of our great national school. Many 
other stories of West Point have been written since, but this, the first 
one, remains also the best. 

Boy Scouts of Birch-Bark Island, by R. S. Holland. 

Lippincott. 

The adventures are of the wholesome, healthy sort, such as any 
party of boys might encounter in a summer out of doors; and even 
the real adventure, in which real robbers are captured, is carried 
through with such joyous boyishness that any touch of melodrama is 
avoided. 

Donald and Dorothy, by M. M. Dodge. Century. 

Donald and Dorothy are a boy and girl of fourteen, healthy and 
wealthy, and happy except for the problem which disturbs them— 
whether they are really brother and sister. This doubt arises from 
the confusion of identity of two babies, one of whom was saved and 
one lost in a shipwreck. Part of the interest of the book lies in the 
solution of this problem and part in the happy home life of the 
children. 

The Young Ice Whalers, by Winthrop Packard. Houghton. 

This splendid story tells of the adventures of two boys, Harry and 
Joe, who went with Joe’s father, Captain Nickerson, for a whaling 
trip up the coast to the Aleutian Isles and Behring Strait. It gives an 
accurate description of the capture of the whales. There are some 
excellent word pictures about the Eskimos and their strange customs 
given in the narrative of the trading carried on with these queer 
people of the Northland. 


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Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 


Burt. 



falsely so-called.” 


The Lance of Kanaka, by Abd El Ardavan. Lothrop. 



persists: umy im emu - ***r ” - A «• 

life.” The opportunity to prove his worth as a brave son ot Arabia 
soon comes. Through great personal danger and almost unbearable 
suffering from heat and thirst, he carries word of an unexpected 
attack from Constantine to the great Persian General. Kohled, the 
Terror of the Desert. He wins his father’s blessing, and covers him¬ 
self with glory through his deeds of daring and his wonderful 
sagacity in the service of his country. But he is still the shepherd 
who never throws a lance! Finally, to save his father fro 01 
(he is a prisoner of war), he throws the great lance and kills the 
Persian General, Kohled, the Terror of the Desert! 

Polly Oliver's Problem, by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Houghton. 

This is a capital story for girls. Polly is a girl with a brave heart, 
a quick wit and a loving spirit. She lives with her invalid mother, 
and makes her life happy with her cheery ways. When her mother 
leaves her, and it becomes necessary for her to earn her living, she 
tells stories to children. This is her one great talent, and she made 
the most of it, for she has the white magic for charming children 
and sick people. Mrs. Wiggin says, “The fact is, if you put Polly 
on a desert island, the bees and the birds and the butterflies would 
gather about her. She draws everything and everybody to her.” 

Indian Boyhood, by Charles A. Eastman. Doubleday. 

“Dr. Eastman, who is a full-blooded Sioux Indian, lived till fifteen 
years of age with his tribe on the plains of the Northwest. He tells 
here of Indian customs and legends, Indian life and adventure, of his 
own boyish training, playmates, games, hunting, forest adventures, 
and of the bear dance feasts and story telling. 

Tom Paulding, by Brander Matthews. Century. 

This is a story of a boy’s intelligent search for a lost treasure right 
in the heart of New York City. The search proved to be well worth 
while to Tom, though it turned out in unexpected fashion. It was 
worth most to him because he proved how the energies of a clever 
boy may be turned to splendid account when all his enthusiasm is 
enlisted in the solution of a problem vital to him. 


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Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery. Page. 

Anne of Green Gables is the story of a young girl who is quite 
like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She has a very vivid imagina¬ 
tion, a warm heart, and is a great chatterbox. 

The chief value of the story lies in the characterization of this 
imaginative child, and the story of her development into girlhood. 
The author has made a careful study of a certain type of girl, and 
the influences in her environment and human contacts which have 
helped to develop her, and she has depicted them in a good story 
which is justly called popular. 

Men of Iron, by Howard Pyle. Harper. 

Myles Falworth, the hero of this story of fourteenth century chiv¬ 
alry in England, is the son of a great lord of fallen fortunes. The 
boy is sent from the retreat of his parents to the castle of the power¬ 
ful Earl of Mackworth, who is in secret his father’s friend, to 
receive knightly training. He early earns knighthood, and then 
devotes himself to the restoration of his blind father to those honors 
and possessions of which the latter has been unjustly deprived. The 
life of the times is brought vividly before the reader, and the char¬ 
acters of Myles and his friend are strongly drawn. 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. Harper. 

Tom Sawyer is the story of a very natural boy who has a large 
imagination and a nimble wit of his own. Mark Twain understands 
a boy’s viewpoint, and Tom’s wonderful experiences with “Muff” 
Parker and Huckleberry Finn are the type of adventure which 
appeal to a lively lad. They are related with the droll humor and 
keen insight which makes the author so fine a story teller. The 
cleverness of Tom in hiring the boys to whitewash his Aunt Polly’s 
fence is worthy of a politician. The playing at pirates is told in an 
irresistibly funny way, and the loss of Tom and Becky in the cave is 
very thrilling in its dramatic incident. One ordinary boy might 
dream of such adventures, but it takes Mark Twain to originate such 
a character as Tom Sawyer, and see him safely through his remark¬ 
able career! 

The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain. Harper. 

The Prince and the Pauper is an idyl in prose, a classic in English 
story. The plot is very original and powerful in construction. It is 
clothed in most picturesque language, and the setting in old England 
is most artistically given. It relates to the strange happenings 
of the prince who became a pauper and of poor Tom Canty of 
Offal Court, whose dreams of being a prince came true, for a time. 
Both the prince and the pauper live through many odd experiences 
in this queer reversal of fortune, and each one comes through it the 
wiser and happier for it. The climax, when the royal prince comes to 
his own just as Tom is to be crowned king, is very dramatically told. 


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“Captains Courageous,” by Rudyard Kipling. Century. 

The story of a rich man’s son who fell overboard from an ocean 
steamer and was picked up by a fishing dory off the Grand Banks. 
How the experience with the hardy fishermen made a man of him 
is something worth reading. . . . 

The power of the story lies in its strong, rough-hewn simplicity. 
It is strong with a tang of sea salt and cod; rough hewn in its sea 
faring life; simple in the telling about Harve, the pampered son of 
a millionaire, who fell overboard and into the good hands of the 
Captain of the “We’re Here.” Harve’s training under the little crew 
of the clear-eyed fisher folk is good to read, for under their tuition 
he learned to be something worth his salt. The end is very exciting 
when his father hears he is alive. It is a wonderful trip that special 
car makes across the continent. 

Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott. Little. 

“Little Women” is the story of four happy girls, founded on the 
girlhood of Miss Alcott and her sisters. Their sweet, wholesome life 
will never cease to be a living ideal in American homes, so long as 
there are girls to share the experience of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. 
Meg is the sweet, sensible home maker. Jo is more like a boy with 
her impulsive ways, her warm heart and hot temper. She is the 
literary genius. Beth is the gentle angel of the bearth-side and Jo’s 
special chum. Amy is clever and artistic, has a good deal of vanity 
• and uses big words in a most astonishing way, but proves herself 
a delightful woman. The Marchs are an original family, and live 
through all sorts of everyday experiences in a delightful way. The 
story gives genuine ideals of wholesome home life. There is no 
better book written for girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen 
than “Little Women.” 

The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan. Burt. 

Not all children enjoy this book, though all have it recommended 
to them. This, no doubt, is largely due to the fact that they have 
not been told what they ought to skip. The lad of parts who skips 
judiciously will find this a fine book of adventure. He may not un¬ 
derstand all the allegorical significance, but he will appreciate the 
fight with Apollyon and the adventures in Doubting Castle. When 
he grows up and reads the book again, he will realize for the first 
time that it is a picture of his own long journey that he is taking 
through life and, while he' will have outgrown some of the theology 
of the book, he will love it for its sturdy, homely and yet eloquent 
style and meaning. 

Don Quixote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 
Retold by Judge Parry or by James Baldwin. 

Amer. Book or Lane. 

“Treats* of the pleasant manner of the- knighting of that famous 
gentleman, Don Quixote, of the dreadful and never-to-be-imagined 
adventure of the wind mills, of the extraordinary battle he waged 


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with what he took to be a giant, and of divers other rare and notable 
adventures and strange enchantments which befell this valorous and 
witty knight-errant.” Admirable editions of the novel that “laughed 
the chivalry of Spain away.” In both spirit and style the original 
has been preserved as far as possible. The incidents chosen are 
those most often alluded to in modern literature, and they are told in 
a manner to elicit sympathy and admiration for the hero. 

Sketch Book, by Washington Irving. Allyn. 

Contains Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Christmas, 
etc. 

“Irving literature * * * is a beneficent literature. He loved 
good women, little children, and a pure life; he had faith in his fel¬ 
low-men, a kindly sympathy with the lowest * * * he retained 

a belief in the possibility of chivalrous actions * * * he was an 
author capable of enthusiasm, his books are wholesome, full of 
sweetness and charm, of humor without any sting, of amusement 
without any stain .”—Charles Dudley Warner. 

Shakespeare Story Book, by Mary MacLeod. Barnes. 

It has been the custom to recommend the version of Shakespeare 
as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb. It is a question, however, 
whether these two lovable but childless people, writing in their middle 
age, speak in language quite adapted to children of the twentieth 
century. There are, of course, many other versions which have 
been written since then, but, in the reviewer’s judgment, none of 
them are better than this by Mary MacLeod, who is also the author 
of the best version, in his judgment, of the King Arthur stories 
ever told. 

Eight Cousins, by L. M. Alcott. Little. 

Poor-rich little Rose. Poor because fatherless and motherless; 
rich with seven boy cousins—the clan, big and little—six aunts and 
Uncle Alec! Any little girl would be rich with big, jolly Uncle Alec 
to care for and love her! And those boys! from bonnie Prince 
Charlie down to little Jamie, you’ll wish they were all your cousins, 
and that you were Rose to queen it over them, to play big and little 
sister to them, and help them out of the hard places as only a girl 
can do! You’ll love little Rose with her shy ways and motherly 
heart. Phoebe is a delight with her strong, wholesome nature. 
Indeed, it’s all a delight, names, folk and all! Aunt Peace and 
Aunt Plenty—do not the very names associate themselves with 
sweetness and comfort? 

What Katy Did, by S. C. Woolsey. Little. 

What didn't Katy do? It would be hard to find anything that that 
funny Katy didn’t do, except behave herself as prim Aunt Izzie 
thought she ought! The things she did do make her a most delight¬ 
ful playmate to her devoted little followers, Clover, Elsie and the 
rest, for whq could tell stories like Katie or find delightful out-of-r 


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the-way places to play in, and all sorts of funny new things to do? 
And then—when the time came and Katy didn’t do anything but lie 
still and think, for so long and so long, how sorry you are, and yet 
how glad as she learns to be cheery and patient with others as 
romping, careless Katy never before had been! You will love what 
Katy did! 

Undine, by Friedrich La Motte-Foque. American Book. 

Romantic tale of the knight Huldebrand, who ventured alone into 
a haunted forest and there met and wedded a water-nymph. “One 
of the best specimens of pure romance to be found in literature.” 

G. E. Hardy. 

Rab and His Friends, by John Brown. Houghton, Altemus. 

Scotch story of a rare woman and a noble dog. The author says: 
“There is no sweetness so sweet as that of a large and deep nature; 
there’s no knowledge so good, so strengthening as that of a great 
mind which is ever filling itself afresh.” 

The Half-Miler, by Albertus T. Dudley. Lothrop. 

Mr. Dudley is being recognized as one of our most wholesome 
writers of school stories. It is hard to know which .one of his books 
to select for special commendation, but, perhaps, his latest is his best. 
Mr. Dudley uses accurate, forcible English, knows boys and schools 
and teachers as do few men, and, best of all, writes with intelligent 
devotion to what is clean and good and true in life. 

“The Half-Miler” is the story of a young man of positive char¬ 
acter facing the stern problem of earning his way in a big school. 
He can run and he does run—through the story. 

Weatherby’s Inning, by Ralph Henry Barbour. Appleton. 

This school-boy story, published in 1903, is of more than ephemeral 
value and is listed by several librarians as worth while for young 
people. It is a story of fine ideals and manly struggle. As the title 
indicates, baseball has an important place throughout the narrative. 

The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest, by Charlotte M. Yonge. Dutton. 

The Eagle’s Nest? It is the Castle of the Robber Barons perched 
high up on inaccessible rocks. The Dove? The timid, gentle Chris¬ 
tina who lives there with these free Lords in their freehold! The 
story of her marriage to Everhard, and her motherhood to her two 
young eaglets is a touchingly beautiful one. How this gentle spirit 
with the strength of her pure and loyal nature tames these wild ones 
is a study for our romantic girls whose dearest dream is to be both 
loving wife and noble mother, and these bold young eaglets with all 
their free-born independence and fierce pride of baron blood are so 
tender and loyal to the little mother-dove! Aye! there’s true stuff 
of nobility in the making there! 


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Freckles, by Gene Stratton-Porter. Doubleday. 

It would hardly be safe to say that “Freckles” is great literature, 
but it is wholesome, interesting and full of open air and appealing, 
if somewhat crude, romance. The descriptions of the hero’s boyhood 
in the wildwood will be thrilling to every boy and girl, and really 
constitute the best part of the book. As the story of an earnest boy’s 
struggle to make a man of himself the book is inspiring, and the 
love story, if somewhat melodramatic, comes out just as it ought to. 
There is also a fine flavor of Irish humor throughout. 

Sue Orcutt, by Mrs. Charlotte M. Vaile. Wilde. 

Sue Orcutt is a nice girl—a nice girl is one who has her faults, 
surely, but whose rough corners are rubbed off in good, wholesome 
contact with a big family life! The girl who has secret aspirations 
after a literary career will best understand Sue’s struggles and vic¬ 
tories in this direction. 

The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper. Holt. 

The “Last of the Mohicans” is a tale of pioneer life in America 
during the period of the French and Indian wars. It gives very fine 
glimpses of our country in the region of Lake Champlain. The pic¬ 
turing of the Indian of this early period is especially good, because 
Cooper gives a faithful portrayal of the red man in his native 
environment. His courage and craftiness and cruelty are strikingly 
shown in the character of Magua, while his native dignity and 
latent nobility are well illustrated in Uncas, the Last of the Mohicans. 
The glimpses of Montcalm are clearly given in the account of the 
surrender of Fort William Henry. 


POETRY 

“With all the rhymes like stars above you, 

And all the words like flowers.” 

—Algernon C. Swinburne. 

The Golden Staircase; Poems and Verses for Children, by 
Louey Chisholm. Putnam. 

For Children, 4 — 14 . 

“The Golden Staircase has two hundred steps. If a child begins to 
climb when he is four years old, and climbs twenty steps each year, 
on his fourteenth birthday he will reach the top. Behind him will 
descend the staircase from which he has caught glimpses of the 
merriment and beauty and heroism beyond; before him will stretch 
those Elysian fields through which his feet have been prepared to 
roam. Following the two hundred poems and verses of the Golden 
Staircase are twenty Cradle Songs * * * and the book ends with 
a selection of forty Carols, Hymns and Sacred Verses.”— Preface. 
Colored pictures. 


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My Picture Poetry Book. Doran. 

For Children, 4 — 8. 

This is a good collection, not so much of Mother Goose rhymes as 
of the olden verses which fathers and mothers half remember and 
wish they could find again and teach to their children. Few of them 
are great poetry, but they are homely and wholesome, and the collec¬ 
tion occupies a rather unique place. 

The Posy Ring, by K. D. Wiggin and N. A. Smith. Doubleday. 
For Children, 7 —9. 

This admirable collection of poems, chosen from the standpoint of 
childish enjoyment, forms a lane of lovely verse leading into the 
great highway of literature. The poems are classified under different 
headings, such as The Flower Folk, Other Little Children, Playtime, 
Story-time, and Bedtime. 

Book of Verses for Children, by Edward Verrall Lucas. Holt. 
For Children, 10 — 14. 

“A fine selection from English and American poetry, which the 
children will read for themselves. It contains old saws and rhymes, 
some early Christmas carols, narrative poems on country life, birds, 
dogs and horses, much fun from -Lear, Carroll and others, old 
ballads, well-known stories in verse, etc.”— Arnold. 

Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth, by Mrs. Kate 
Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. Doubleday. 

For Children, 10 — 14. 

“Comprehensive, classified selection from standard poets, with 
attractive introduction. Author and title indexes .”—New York State 
Library. 

Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Altemus, Putnam. 

Poems which by their fanciful humor and simple rhythm appeal 
to children. This edition is illustrated in color and is attractive and 
very popular. 

Lays of Ancient Rome, with Ivry and the Armada, by 

Thomas Babington Macaulay. Altemus. 

“Macaulay was perhaps at his best in his Lays of ancient Rome. 

* * * His incidents are fully realized. He sees what he sings. 

* * * He likes to paint the stir of battle .”—Henry Morley. Con¬ 
tents : Horatius, The Battle of Lake Regillus, Virginia, The Proph¬ 
ecy of Capys, Ivry; a song of the Huguenots, The Armada. 

Historic Poems and Ballads, by Rupert S. Holland. Jacobs. 

A collection of sixty stirring ballads and historical poems. The 
book is unique in that the poems are given with explanations telling 
how they came to be written and also giving the historical setting. 
The twenty illustrations are reproductions of fine old steel engrav¬ 
ings. 


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BIOGRAPHY 

“There’s a far bell ringing 
At the setting of the sun, 

And a phantom voice is singing 
Of the great days done. 

There’s a far bell ringing 
And a phantom voice is singing 
Of renown forever clinging 
To the great days done.” 

—Henry Newbolt. 

For Children, 7—9 

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, by Ed¬ 
ward Eggleston. Amer. Book 

A collection of many noted tales with which all of our children 
should be familiar. It includes Franklin’s Whistle, Putnam and the 
Wolf, and Daniel Boone and his Grapevine Swing. 

Joan of Arc, illustrated by Boutet de Monvel. Century. 

In these truly remarkable pictures, instinct with spirit, dignity and 
pathos, the peasant girl of Domremy, martyr and patron saint, lives 
for children. The book is a large oblong one with full-page illustra¬ 
tions in color. While the text is somewhat advanced for young chil¬ 
dren, the pictures really tell the story. 

For Children, 9—12 

The Boys of 76, by C. C. Coffin. Harper. 

In this volume an attempt has been made to give a concise, plain 
and authentic narrative of the principal battles of the Revolution as 
witnessed by those who took part in them.— Preface. A companion 
to “Old Times in the Colonies,” with maps and many pictures. 

Heroes of Every Day Life, by various writers, edited by Fanny 

E. Coe. Ginn. 

A description of the daily work of the diver, the telegraph operator, 
a civil engineer, a life saver, a fireman, an engineer at sea, and the 
miner, with stirring accounts of actual unknown heroism in each 
one of these fields of toil. 

Brave Deeds of American Sailors, by Robert D. Duncan. 

Jacobs. 

The true stories of the lives of the Men of Machias, John Paul 
Jones, Captain Lawrence, David Porter, the Monitor and the Merri- 
mac, Farragut, Dewey and Hobson. The emphasis is upon unselfish 
heroism and patriotism. The illustrations are chiefly from old 
historic prints. 


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Stories of the Saints, by C. (V. D.) Chenoweth. Houghton. 

The lives and legends of St. George, St. Denis, St. Nicholas, St. 
Elizabeth, and others less well known in the great brotherhood of all 
lands, are told with dignity and simplicity. The illustrations are 
taken from old pictures. 

The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding. Dutton. 

Among the many excellent lives of the great African explorer and 
missionary, this is one of the shortest and best. It is written in a 
simple and attractive way, emphasizing especially the adventurous 
and heroic side of this great Englishman’s work. There are a num¬ 
ber of color illustrations. 


For Young People, 12—14 

The Boy's Life of Abraham Lincoln. 

Rewritten for young folks by Helen Nicolay from the stand¬ 
ard life by Nicolay and Hay. Century. 

Helen Nicolay’s “The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln” is a book 
with which every American youth should make close friends. As 
years go by, the nobility and far-reaching influence of Abraham 
Lincoln’s character are being more and more widely recognized and 
highly honored. As Miss Helen Nicolay has written the story, it 
carries the weight of authority and is full of charm—a vivid and 
inspiring narrative. 

The Children's Plutarch—Tales of the Greeks, arranged 
bv F. T. Gould, with an Introduction by W. D. Howells. 

J Harper. 

Mr. Howells writes in his introduction to “Tales of the Greeks”: 

“It is more a pleasure than I can well say to write of this little 
book which Mr. Gould has made for the children out of Plutarch’s 
great book. The work is very well done, indeed, with a feeling for 
the original and a faith in it which no criticism or research will ever 
quite dissipate; for in spite of all the knowledge of Greece and Rome 
which the study of scholars has since brought us, the Greece and 
Rome of Plutarch, which, for the English race, became the Greece 
and Rome of Shakespeare and of Goldsmith, will remain to the end 
of time the universal countries, with the ‘cities of the soul’ for their 
capitals.” 

The Children's Plutarch—Tales of the Romans, arranged 
by F. J. Gould, with an Introduction by W. D. Howells. 

Harper. 

Mr. Howells says: “Mr. Gould has done well in putting all Gre¬ 
cians together and all Romans together, for otherwise it would be 
confusing to children who did not know their history, and did not 


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realize how long after the Grecians the Romans came. I also like the 
gentle and right feeling in which he treats the facts, and will not 
allow any dazzle of glory to blind his readers as to the right and 
wrong of the things that happen, in the men that do or suffer things.” 

The True Story of Benjamin Franklin, by Elbridge S. 
Brooks. Lothrop. 

Mr. Brooks is an enthusiastic writer, apt to eulogize the hero of 
whom .he is writing, and this proves a popular thing, with boys and 
girls, in biography of celebrated men and women. This is a good 
narrative of the famous all-around American who from early boy¬ 
hood proved himself “Jack of all Trades” and master of them as 
well. The keen business ability, the scientific genius, the universal 
sense of brotherhood and wise diplomacy of this first statesman are 
well set forth by the author, who gives, also, a clear idea of the 
inestimable services rendered our country by this representative 
American. 

The Story of the Cowboy, by E. Hough. Appleton. 

Written for older readers, this story of a class of men which is 
rapidly passing away is of quite equal interest to the older children. 
The author has not yielded to the temptation to paint his subject in 
too strong colors, but the style is vigorous, and its very simplicity 
gives it strength. 

Grandfather's Chair and Biographical Stories, by Nathaniel 
Hawthorne. Houghton. 

Such an introduction to New England history as perhaps can 
never be surpassed. Hawthorne makes those old Puritan characters 
fairly live, and those of us who read his legends of Puritan days will 
find ever after that we get our portraits or imaginary conception of 
those old worthies direct from Hawthorne. 

An Island Story, A Child's History of England, by H. E. 
Marshall. Stokes. 

A sumptuous book somewhat after the style of Dickens’ Child’s 
history, but shorter and simpler. Dramatic and human. 

Drake, the Sea King of Devon, by George M. Towle. Lothrop. 

Sir Francis Drake was one of the chief figures which surrounded 
the throne of Queen Elizabeth. He was the foremost sea conqueror 
of his age. He was the first English admiral to sail his ship around 
the globe. He was the hero of the victory of the Armada. Drake 
was one of those rough, blunt, sturdy, fearless men who appear most 
noble in scenes of danger, and his career, stirring and adventurous, 
brave and unresting from youth to age, in spite of the piracies which 
were excused by his own time, though they seem wicked in ours, is 
full of lessons of manly qualities and of great and often admirable 
deeds. 


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ART AND MUSIC 
ART 

* * * Without knowing, you hold a gift 
That a mine of gold could not buy; 

Something the soul of a man to lift 
From the tiresome earth, and to make him see 
How beautiful common things can be; 

How heaven may be glimpsed through a wayside tree; 

The gift of an artist's eye! —Lucy Lafcom. 

How to Enjoy Pictures, by M. S. Emery. Prang. 

For Children, g — 13. 

Although published fifteen years ago, there is still no better book 
than this of Miss Emery’s to learn how to appreciate all the fine 
points of a good picture. She studies pictures by theme rather than 
by period or school, which is the right approach for children. There 
is a chapter upon magazine illustrations, one upon the processes of 
reproduction and one upon schoolroom decoration. There is an illus¬ 
tration with each picture studied. 

The Children's Book of Art, by Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir 
Martin Conway. Macmillan. 

Nothing better can be found for interesting young people who are 
old enough to be thoughtful in good pictures. This is a most simple 
and sensible book. It interweaves a sketch of the history of art with 
illustrations typical of each period. It shows the young scoffer the 
spirit that was behind the quaintness of the thirteenth century art 
and reveals the possibilities which color, composition, and inspiration 
may achieve. The most noticeable characteristic of the book is its 
wonderful reproductions in color of pictures of paintings. The sub¬ 
jects selected are unusual ones, hanging in English galleries, yet 
their choice is well suited to the appreciation of young people. 

Pictures That Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon. 

Doubleday. 

A study of forty-five artists with seventy-five samples of their 
work, the men and pictures that children when they grow up will 
wish to know. There is a sketch of each artist’s life and short com¬ 
ment on each reproduction. The book is one for high-school pupils. 

Famous Pictures of Real Boys and Girls, by Lorinda Munson 
Bryant. Lane. 

A selection of fifty-five well-known children from the time of the 
Medici to the present, with most interesting comment upon their 
lives and the circumstances under which their portraits were painted. 


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Stories of Great Artists, by O. B. Horne and K. L. Scobey. 

Amer. Book. 

Children will find this small book, interesting. It tells of the lives 
of some of the noted painters of different lands and periods; among 
them Raphael, Rembrandt, Reynolds and Millet. The illustrations 
are from famous paintings. 


MUSIC 

“Bright is the ring of words 

When the right man rings them, 

Sweet is the fall of songs 
When the singer sings them.” 

—Robert Louis Stevenson. 

Riverside Graded Song-Book, by W. M. Lawrence. Houghton. 

A collection of two hundred and sixty poems by such authors as 
Longfellow, Whittier, Burns, Shakespeare, Eugene Field, Tabb, 
Tennyson and Scott. Set to appropriate music.— Olcott. 

Songs That Every Child Should Know, by Mrs. Dolores 
Bacon. Doubleday. 

Simple melodies arranged for the voice only; contains All thro’ the 
night, Annie of Tharau, Auld Lang Syne, Auld Robin Gray, Cornin’ 
thro’ the rye, Drink to me only with thine eyes, and many others. 
Arranged under headings such as Songs of sentiment, Songs of war, 
National hymns, Songs of patriotism, Military nonsense songs. 
Shakespeare songs. Contains indexes of titles, composers, authors. 

A Guide to Music, by Daniel Gregory Mason. Bak,er. 

This book isn’t the usual “guide” with a few facts about composers 
and some commonplace anecdotes, but a live discussion of such topics 
as “The Inside of a Piano,” or “The Way Melodies Are Built Into 
Pieces.” There is a chapter on “The Key Family and Its Members,” 
and a discussion of such matters as transposition and tonal unity and 
contrast. “The Listener’s Part in Music” and “The Feelings Aroused 
by Music,” are finely presented in their respective chapters and “The 
Music that Tells Stories” begins, as one would naturally expect, with 
Richard Strauss and ends with Beethoven, “the great master of this 
method of suggesting actual speech or utterance in the musical 
phrase.” This book should be studied by music students very gen¬ 
erally. 

Stories of Great Musicians, by Kathrine Lois Scobey and Olive 
Brown Horne. Amer. Book. 

A reading book containing simple, lively and interesting accounts 
of the childhood and manhood of ten great musicians. The untiring 
effort and persistent endeavor of these composers is an inspiring 
story, and those who are only pupils of the great art of music ought 
to be encouraged by their fine examples. 


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Standard History of Music, by James Francis Cooke. Presser. 

An excellent short history of music, brightly illustrated. The author 
gives a very short account of the lives of all the great composers. 
His biographical sketches are brought down to a more recent period 
than in most other histories. There are ten test questions at the 
end of each chapter. A helpful feature is a chapter on how to or¬ 
ganize a young folk’s musical club and another one on how to con¬ 
duct it. There is a novel map of musical Europe at the close in 
which the birthplaces of all the great musicians are printed in red. 

Master Lessons in Pianoforte Playing: Letters from a 
Musician to His Nephew, by Edward Morris Bowman. 

Presser . 

These are familiar and pleasant letters supposed to be written 
from an uncle, who is a music teacher, to his nephew. There are 
also some imaginary letters from the boy himself. The substance 
of the book is a series of suggestions as to piano practice. This 
book would hardly take the place of a good teacher, but it would be 
an interesting companion to music study. 

As it is not the purpose of this list to go deeply into the tech¬ 
nique of teaching, we simply refer our older readers to the follow¬ 
ing titles of the best textbooks and collections, without comment. 
This list was furnished us by Dr. Frank A. Manny, of the Balti¬ 
more Normal School. 

FOR GRADES IV, V, AND VI. 

Eleanor Smith: Modern Music Series, Book I. (Silver, Burdett.) 
27 c. 

Eleanor Smith: Eleanor Smith Music Course, Book II. (American 
Book Company.) 27c. 

Brown & Moffat: Characteristic Songs and Dances of All Nations. 
(Bagley & Ferguson, London.) $1.50. 

Gilbert: 100 Folk Songs. (C. C. Birchard & Co.) 40c. 

Gould & Sharp: English Folk Songs for Schools. (J. Carwen & 
Son, London.) 75c. 

Whitehead: Folk Songs and other Songs for Children. (Ditson.) 
$1.50. 

Pratt: St. Nicholas Song Book. (Century Company.) Boards, 80c.; 
cloth, $1.25. 

FOR GRADES VII AND VIII. 

Tomlins: Laurel Music Reader, Special Edition. (C. C. Birchard 
& Co.) 50c.; Reg. Ed., 60c. 

Halcyon Song Book. (Silver, Burdett & Co.) 50c. 

Dunning: 34 Unison Songs (5c.); 55 Rounds (5c.) (G. Schirmer, 

N. Y.) 


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McConathy: School Song Book. (C. C. Birchard & Co.) Stu¬ 
dents’ Ed., 50c.; Full Score, $1.25. 

Rix Assembly Song Book with or without Hymnal Supplement. 
(A. S. Barnes & Co.) 50c. 

Fink: 50 Master Songs. (Ditson.) $1.50. 

GERMAN SONG BOOKS. 

103 Kinderlieden, Album Band 7. von Richard Kuegele. 1 and 2 
parts. P. J. Tonger, Kohn am Rhein. 

Lieder kranz (Erk und Greef). Vol. I, 1 and 2 voices, 50c.; Vol. 11, 
2 voices, 80c.; Vol. Ill, 1, 2, 3, 4 voices, m. 1. G. B. Baedeker, Essen. 

Liederschatz fiir Germischten Chor (Vogel), No. 2271 in Peters Edi¬ 
tion, Leipzig. 


COLLECTIONS OF FRENCH SONGS. 

Recueil De Chants, de la Societe De Zafingue (Georges Bridel & Co., 
Lausanne). 

Ecole Musicale par E. Combe & W. Pilet (Payot & Co., Lausanne). 

VOICE. 

Bentley: Child Life in Song and Speech. Tone Plays for Children 
(A. S. Barnes). 

Rix: Voice Training for Schools (A. S. Barnes & Co.). 35c. 

Bates: Voice Culture for Children (H. W. Gray Company). 75c. 

Ffrangcon-Davies: The Singing of the Future. $1.25. 

Dawson: The Voice of the Boy. 25c. 

Corson: The Voice and Spiritual Education. 75c. 

BUSINESS 

Money-Making and Thrift for School Boys and Girls, by 
William Byron Forbush. Institute. 

A booklet giving a hundred plans by which boys and girls may 
earn money without leaving school; also plans and systems for sav¬ 
ing money after they have earned it. 

The Handy Boy, by A. Neely Hall. Lothrop. 

This book tells how to do things handily. Its instruction can be 
put to immediate use. Besides developing handiness, “The Handy 
Boy” will encourage the boy to think for himself and to use his in¬ 
genuity; and it will instill in him an ambition to make the best pos¬ 
sible use of his time so that he may grow up prepared to do some¬ 
thing and be something. There is woodworking, electrical and 
mechanical toy-making, scout-craft, and other forms of indoor and 
outdoor handicraft in this book. The author provides suggestions 
by which the boy can earn whatever money he may need for tools 
and working materials. 


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LIFE PROBLEMS 

“You must feel the mountains above you while you work in your little 
garden .”—Phillips Brooks. 

What the Children Do, by E. Grierson. Macmillan. 

“The other children” are the children of Lazarus, the unfortu¬ 
nates, and this book appears to be the first one written to introduce 
to happy children the many beautiful endeavors of social philan¬ 
thropy to minister through children’s charities. There are descrip¬ 
tions of friendly kitchens, kindergartens, day nurseries, mothers 
meetings, children’s shelters, girls’ clubs, etc., written from the Eng¬ 
lish standpoint. There is a certain disagreeable air of condescension 
which it is hard to overlook, but so much information in simple 
form is not elsewhere available. 

If I Were a Boy, and If I Were a Girl Again, by Lucy Elliot 
Keeler. Revell. 

The difficulty with books of talks for boys and girls is to get the 
boys and girls to read them. They are usually, written either wtih 
an air of condescension or with a dullness that is formidable. Miss 
Keeler writes in a manner that is sprightly, clear and attractive. 
The reviewer may almost guarantee that if one of these books were 
presented to a boy or girl he would read it through with avidity. 

Our City: A City Reader, by Helen H. Yerkes and Walter 
Lefferts. Hinds. 

A simple reading book in civics for children about eight years of 
age. The topics treated are: Streets, Traveling About, Lights, 
Wires, Food, Waste, News, Protection, Factories and Stores, City 
Play, Schools, Nature in the City, What the City Gives Us, What We 
Can Do for Our City. These topics suggest the nature of the book, 
which is to give the child in simple words all the factors which gO 
to make a good city to live in. Intermingled with these chapters 
are fine appropriate quotations in verse. The book is illustrated by 
simple line drawings which it is intended that the children shall repro¬ 
duce in enlarged form. 


BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF HIGH 
SCHOOL AGE 

It is not until young people are at least a year in high school 
that they manifest a strong desire for reading what is noticeably 
different from that which they enjoyed in grammar school. Many 
of the books mentioned in the preceding list, particularly those on 
athletics, handicraft, nature and invention, and many of the 
stories, might just as well have been included under this list. You 
are therefore encouraged to turn back for accounts of additional 
books upon all the topics mentioned below. 

In the present list there is some special emphasis upon voca¬ 
tion and business, more advanced science and invention, more 
elaborate handicraft, and there is a longer list of books of inspira¬ 
tion. It is now time to begin to gather a library of the books that 
will last and that will be comrades throughout life. 


PLAY, RECREATION AND ATHLETICS 

The Book of Athletics, edited by Paul Withington. Lothrop. 

This is the book to rouse any boy, or man, either, who is made up 
in any normal way. Nearly thirty college stars and champions, to¬ 
gether with noted trainers like Keene Fitzpatrick and the late 
“Mike” Murphy, tell everything that can well be told regarding 
training for and performing in every form of competitive athletics 
that is of consequence. The book is made up under the direction 
of the best qualified editor to be found, Paul Withington, who, as is 
shown by the title-page, is one of America’s greatest amateur athletes, 
and who has the intellectual ability and high character requisite for 
presenting such a work properly. The emphasis placed upon clean 
living, fair play and moderation in all things makes this book as 
desirable educationally as it is in every other way. 

The Healthful Art of Dancing, by Luther H. Gulick. 

Doubleday. 

Our best book upon folk-dancing. Dr. Gulick discusses the value 
of dancing as a part of education, as to its physiology, as wholesome 
element of physical exercise, and folk-dancing as an art. The book 
makes little reference to ballroom dancing, but suggests how this 
ancient art, properly cultivated, might be made an antidote for the 
abuses of the ballroom and be to us and our families and social cir¬ 
cles a source of joy and reasonable pleasure. 

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Book of College Sports, by Walter C. Camp. Century. 

This well-known athlete says that he writes for the boy or man 
who goes heart and soul into his sports, who wants a fair field with 
no favors, who, when he sees a better man, can give up the bat, or 
the ball, or the oar to him, who wants fair play and the best man to 
win. He describes track athletics, rowing, baseball and football. 

Football for Public and Player, by Herbert Reed. Stokes. 

The football expert, known as “Right Wing,” has written a very 
interesting and explicit book about our great autumn game, and it 
will be read with deep interest by high-school players. 

Track Athletics, by Arthur Swazey Jones. Small. 

A series of ten little books upon indoor running, high hurdles, low 
hurdles, sprints, long-distance running, jumping and vaulting. There 
are only about six pages of text in each book, but there are ten 
to a dozen plates, reproduced from actual photographs of Harvard 
athletes in action. The value of the book, of course, is in showing 
what “form” looks like. 

Exercise and Health, by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. Outing. 

Dr. Hutchinson takes the commonsense view that the greatest prob¬ 
lem in exercise for most of us is to get enough of the right kind. 
The greatest error in exercise is not to take enough, and the greatest 
danger in athletics is in giving them up. The Chapter heads are illu¬ 
minating : Errors in Exercise—Exercise and the Heart—Muscle Mak- 
eth Man—The Danger of Stopping Athletics—Exercise That Rests. 
It is written in a direct matter-of-fact manner with an avoidance of 
medical terms, and. a strong emphasis on the rational, all-round man¬ 
ner of living that is best calculated to bring a man to a ripe old age 
with little illness or consciousness of bodily weakness. “One of the 
most readable books ever written on physical exercise .”-—Luther H. 
Gulick, M.D. 

Making the Most of Life, by M. V. O’Shea and J. H. Kellogg. 

Macmillan. 

This is one of the best of the new type of physiologies. The vol¬ 
ume begins with an attractive essay on “Taking the Measure of a 
Man.” In the early part of the book is a similarly attractive presen¬ 
tation of the value of life. From this point the authors go on to dis¬ 
cuss exercise, muscle training, food, mental efficiency, nerve and 
race poison, etc. There are many attractive illustrations. 

Dramatization, by Sarah E. Simons and Clem Irwin Orr. Scott. 

A valuable book for the home as well as the school, showing how to 
turn into form, of action with the smallest scenery and other equip¬ 
ment the English classics which are favorites in high school years. 


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NATURE AND ANIMAL LIFE 

“O Earth! Thou hast not any wind that blows 
Which is not music; every weed of thine, 

Pressed rightly, flows in aromatic wine; 

And every humble hedgerow flower that grows, 

And every little brown bird that doth sing, 

Hath. something greater than itself, and bears 
A living word to every living thing, 

Though it may hold the message unawares.” 

Birds and Bees, by John Burroughs. Houghton. 

This dear old naturalist has written a number of volumes whose 
charming style and accurate descriptions have for years made them 
interesting to thoughtful young people. To the Burroughs enthu¬ 
siast it is hard to choose among his many volumes, but his “Bird 
Stories” and “Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers” should be named 
with “Birds and Bees” as the three that should be first known. 

The Pet Book, by Anna Botsford Comstock. Comstock. 

One may safely recommend this as the best and most compre¬ 
hensive book upon home pets that has been produced. The stand¬ 
point of the book is interesting. Mrs. Comstock regards pets as our 
friends as well as our dependents. She thinks the keeping of pets 
is fine discipline for young people. The scope of the book is unusual. 
She deals with animals in six zoological classes: Mammals, birds, 
fish, amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates. She names some unusual 
pets, such as the fox, woodchuck, bat, toad, snakes and ants. Each 
chapter tells something about the habits of the animal under discus¬ 
sion, how to house it, feed it, and take care of it. It closes with 
references for further reading and usually there is an appropriate 
poem. The volume is most lavishly illustrated by photographs of 
living animals in natural attitudes. 

Red Fox, by Charles G. D. Roberts. Page. 

Professor Roberts is one of the men who were indicted in Mr. 

Roosevelt’s famous accusation as a “nature fakir.” Nobody has 
ever denied, however, that Mr. Roberts has a genuine knowledge 
of the wild woods and of their inhabitants. This book, which is his 
best nature book, is least subject to criticism for attributing to ani¬ 
mals human traits. The dramatic story of a fox is told splendidly 
and in such a way as to bring the sympathy of the reader and to 
cause him to rejoice over this animal hero’s eventual triumph. The 
illustrations are by Charles Livingston Bull and are very satisfactory. 

Practical Dog Keeping, by Williams Haynes. Outing. 

Mr. Haynes is well known as the author of books on Terriers. 
His new book is somewhat more ambitious in that it carries him into 
the general field pf Selection of Breeds, The Buying and Selling of 


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Dogs, The Care of Dogs in the Kennels, Handling in Bench Shows 
and Field Trials, and at considerable length into such subjects as 
food and feeding, exercise and grooming, disease, etc. 

Our Devoted Friend, the Dog, by Sarah Knowles Bolton. Page. 

This book of 450 pages contains more good things that have been 
said about dogs, which they deserve, than any other of which we are 
aware. It might be entitled a hero-story of dog life. The scope of 
the book may be indicated by some of the chapter headings which are 
as follows: Devotion of Dogs to Human Beings; Dogs Saved from 
Fire; Gratitude of Dogs, Faithfulness of Dogs; Intelligence of Dogs; 
Devotion of Human Beings to Animals; How to Care for Animals ; 
Our Duty to Animals. There are literally thousands of attractive 
incidents and the book is illustrated by at least a hundred life photo¬ 
graphs. 

The Life of the Bee, by Maurice Maeterlinck. Dodd. 

Probably the reader may think he is not going to like this book. It 
does not seem credible that so small a theme could suggest an inter¬ 
esting treatment, but as he goes on, absorbed in the epic story and 
fascinated by its beautiful language, he sees that he is in contact with 
the work of a master. Few, surely, can read this book without a 
deeper reverence for Nature and a larger sweep of> comprehension of 
its mighty work even in little things. 

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers, by John 
Burroughs. Edited by M. E. Burt. Houghton. 

Other Papers: The apple, A taste of Maine birch, Winter neigh¬ 
bors, The weather-wise muskrat, Cheating the squirrels. Fox and 
hound, The woodchuck. A selection of John Burroughs’ essays 
which have been tried and approved by children. “Burroughs’ way 
of investing beasts, birds, insects and inanimate things with human 
motives is very pleasing to children,” and is sure to develop good 
feeling toward the common things of life. 

Nature's Craftsmen, by Henry C. McCook. Harper. 

A marvelous record of fascinating facts about ants, bees, wasps 
and other insects. Dr. McCook points out unsuspected marvels at 
our very doors. The book is written with special attention to the 
picturesque and unusual in insect life, and, while free from tech¬ 
nical terms, it is thoroughly scientific in its treatment. 

There is no greater authority, nor more interesting writer, in 
America on insect life than the late Rev. Dr. McCook. This volume 
is as free from embarrassing technical terms as such a book can be. 
It may be described as an attractive and agreeable history of our 
little brothers and sisters, the insects, and by a man who spent years 
in sundry parts of our continent in delightful contact with these 
Nature’s Craftsmen. To anyone not familiar with the life of the 
ant, Dr. McCook’s story reads like a fairy tale. 


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Methods of Attracting Birds, by Gilbert H. Trafton. 

Houghton. 

Published under the auspices of the National Association of Audu¬ 
bon Societies. A handbook on the most approved methods of attract¬ 
ing wild birds about houses and providing for their needs in winter 
and summer. 

The chapter headings are: “The Need and Value of Attracting 
Birds,” “Nesting-houses,” “Attracting the Winter Birds,” “Drinking- 
and Bathing-Fountains,” “Planting Trees, Shrubs and Vines,” “Bird 
Protection in Schools,” “Bird Photography.” The book contains some 
very valuable tables, such as the names of birds arranged according 
to the different species of fruit which they eat. 

Nature's Garden, by Neltje Blanchan (Mrs. N. Doubleclay). 

Doubleday. 

Mrs. Doubleday has classified over five hundred flowers according 
to color, months of blooming, their preferred localities, or habitats, 
and finally, according to their proper families—by the classification 
adopted by the International Botanical Congress. Special attention 
has been given to the flowers' insect visitors. This large volume 
contains thirty-two pages of color plates, and forty-eight in black and 
white. 

Bird Neighbors, by Neltje Blanchan. Doubleday. 

Illustrated with full-page color plates. Non-technical. Birds are 
grouped according to size and color; no specific color key. Rather 
full biographies. There are chapters giving the characteristics of the 
families, the habitats, and the seasons of occurrence .—Audubon 
Society. This book, written in a vivacious strain by a real bird-lover, 
is reliable and should prove helpful and stimulating to any one who 
seeks by the aid of its pages to become better acquainted with our 
songsters. 

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters, by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. 

Lothrop. 

A story full of information and adventure, dealing, in an interest¬ 
ing manner, with a department of public work much in the public 
eye. It tells of the prevention and fighting of forest fires, of the 
regulation of the grazing of cattle and sheep, the preservation and 
disposition of lumber, the ardor of the pursuit of big game, and the 
responsible life of the individual forester.— Coussens. 

The Heart of the Ancient Wood, by Charles G. D. Roberts. 

Page. 

“With this romance of Miranda and Young Dave are interwoven 
the life histories of the wild creatures of the woods. The author’s 
appreciation of the silent and mighty forests is impressed on the 
reader till he fancies himself in the heart of the sheltering woods 
and under their influence.” 

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lore which is rare in its sympathy and power of interpretation of 
the wild life therein. The story of the friendship of Miranda for 
the animals, and the Bear’s gradual surrender to her kindliness is 
one of the finest narratives of the relationship between animals and 
human beings ever written. 

Song of the Cardinal, by Gene Stratton-Porter. Bobbs. 

This is a delightful nature story. It is also a love story, unique and 
exquisite—the love of two birds, which is as interesting as a tale of 
man and maid. It is a beautiful account of a Red Cardinal’s wooing 
and honeymoon. The scene is laid in the Limberlost. which Gene 
Stratton-Porter has revealed to readers of this and other delightful 
stories. By a method all her own the author has made Nature yield 
a rich contribution for the purposes of fiction. It is a beautiful, 
wholesome story for any boy or girl to read, but it seems to have its 
greatest charm for girls. 

The Romance of Animal Arts and Crafts, by H. Coupin and 
John Lea. Lip pine ott. 

Apparently, this is the. first book upon a very unique subject. The 
subject title states that it is “an interesting account of the spinning, 
weaving, sewing, manufacturing of paper and pottery, aeronautics, 
raft building,, road making and various other industries of wild life.” 
Some of the interesting topics dealt with are suggested by the follow¬ 
ing page headings: “The Underground Fortress,” “Robber Crafts,” 
“The Perfect Incubator,” “Magpie Fortifications,” “Cake Making,” 
“The. Ant’s Pavilions,” “A Ferocious Infant,” “Parasol Ants,” “Why 
a Spider’s Aeroplane Rises.” There are about thirty illustrations. 

The Romance of Modern Astronomy, by Hector MacPherson, 
J r - Lip pine ott. 

This book will be of interest chiefly to high school students who 
are interested in the stars. There is no special effort made to “write 
down” to young people yet the statements of the book are clear. The 
author begins with the earth, then talks about the moon, discusses the 
planets in turn, including the asteroids and the comets, and then 
sweeps out into space with a discussion of fire mist, the galaxy and 
the origin of the universe. There is an interesting chapter upon the 
early astronomers and an impressive one upon light and its mysteries. 
The book has a fine tone of reverence. There are over a score of 
illustrations and eight diagrams. 

Electricity for Young People, by Tudor Jenks. Stokes . 

This is neither a textbook nor a book on how to do things. It is 
the story, of electricity told so that those who are not especially skilled 
in the. science, who are not electricians, mathematicians or experts of 
any kind, can understand how mankind came to find out a new power 
in the world, how they learned its ways, how they invented means of 
controlling it. The author gives the reader some acquaintance with 
the men to whom all this is due, remembering how much their work 


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has meant to us and under what difficulties it was done. He shows 
how by the use of electricity we gain power, heat, light and sound 
and how we extend our control over the earth and the living things 
upon and beneath its surface, how we save time by easier and quicker 
methods of sending intelligence and how we overcome space by better, 
swifter and less cumbersome means of travel and transportation. 
There are eight full-page illustrations and about eighty sm^ll illustra¬ 
tions and diagrams in the text. 

Harper's How to Understand Electrical Work, by William 

H. Onken, Jr., and Joseph B. Baker. Harper. 

Most books upon electricity content themselves with descriptions of 
electrical instruments and working plans for making the simpler elec¬ 
trical devices. They do not tell anything about the philosophy of the 
subject. This handbook is a simple explanation of electric light, heat, 
power and traction in daily life by two competent authorities. The 
growing boy has an unbounded regard for this particularly subtile 
form of energy and such a book as this will introduce him into a new 
fairyland. Some of the chapter subjects are these: How electricity 
is made and used; the electric light; electric heat; electric power; 
electric traction; electricity in the home; electricity in farming; 
electricity aboard ship; electric protection; transmission of intelli¬ 
gence. The language is simple and the illustrations are many and 
graphic. There is an appendix of 50 pages giving a complete dic¬ 
tionary of electrical terms and phrases. 

TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE 

Italian Cities, by C. F. Lavelle. Chautauqua. 

A fascinating book of mingled travel, description, history and art 
chat about the chief cities of Italy, giving the clearest idea in small 
compass of the spirit of Italy at its best and greatest. 

A Wanderer in Holland, by E. V. Lucas. Macmillan. 

A charming art pilgrimage with some descriptions of scenery and 
the people. His companion books are also enjoyable, “A Wanderer 
in Paris,” “A Wanderer in London” and “A Wanderer in Venice.” 
They call attention to the historic nooks and out-of-the-way bits that 
the guide books forget. 

My Dogs in the Northland, by Egerton R. Young. Revell. 

“For years, with great dogs,” says the author, “I toiled and often 
with them was in great perils. Much of my work was accomplished 
with their aid, so I believe in dogs and here in this book I have writ¬ 
ten of some of them and their deeds.” This is the story of Mr. 
Young’s noble work in the Eskimo region of the northwest. Those 
who like to read of adventure will find this book one to rejoice in 
greatly. Some of his other interesting books are entitled “On the 
Indian Trial,” “Algonquin Indian Tales,” and “The Apostle of the 
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Adrift on an Ice-Pan, by Wilfred T. Grenfell. Houghton. 

His narrative of his thrilling adventure with his eight dogs, caught 
adrift on the ice-pan, is told with a simplicity which is almost bluff in 
its directness! The picture he gives is a very graphic one. It shows 
the dogged perseverance of the man, and his wonderful resourceful¬ 
ness in seizing every possible opportunity for holding to life. 

Travels With a Donkey, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Scribner. 

Among the books which glorify by keen and alert observation the 
incidents of a short tour, this is pre-eminent. Boys and girls who are 
Stevenson enthusiasts will read this with great pleasure, also his 
accompanying volume, “An Inland Voyage.” 

Careers of Danger and Daring, by Cleveland Moffett. Century. 

This book consists of a series of ten graphic stories of the risks 
bravely run every day by our heroes of peace as follows: (I) The 
Steeple Climber; (II) The Deep Sea Diver; (III) The Balloonist; 
(IV) The Pilot; (V) The Bridge Builder; (VI) The City Fireman; 
(VII) The Aerial Acrobat; (VIII) The Wild Beast Tamer; (IX) 
The Dynamite Worker; (X) The Locomotive Engineer. 

From the up-in-the-air adventures of “Steeple Jack” to the under- 
the-sea experiences of the “Deep Sea Diver,” there is one constant 
succession of dramatic incident and hairbreadth escapes. These are 
told from the standpoint of first-hand contact with the “Fireman,” 
“Bridge Builder,” “Dynamite Worker” et al. These accounts show 
not only moments of daring which test courage, but long-continued 
practice necessary in the working out of all difficult problems and 
the development of the best traits of character. These sketches are 
calculated to act as an inspiration at the period of heroism in a boy’s 
life. 

Fighting a Fire, by Charles T. Hill. Century. 

A graphic and interesting picture of the heroism of a fireman’s 
life. This is an excellent collection of sketches and stories which 
relate in a dramatic way the thrilling experiences of a fireman’s 
career, from the time he is trained as a raw recruit in the fireman’s 
school to the time when he proves his clear-headed practical under¬ 
standing of how to meet emergencies by rescuing a fellowman from 
a burning building. There are many straightforward accounts of 
the scientific facts which are connected with the conduct of a fire¬ 
man’s vocation; in management of the offices, apparatus used, meth¬ 
ods employed in fighting a fire, etc. The author relates many inter¬ 
esting incidents which show the hardships which these brave men 
undergo and the heroism which they show, and he does it with a 
sympathetic insight born of practical experience. 

The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman. Burt. 

This account of the adventures of two young men in the days of 
’4b gives rare photographs of the early pioneer and emigrant time, 


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and the opening up of our western country before it became civilized. 
It gives the experiences of a party of English and American gentle¬ 
men who crossed the continent for the pure pleasure of discovery 
and exploration. This book gives a close view of the prairie in all its 
beauty and dangers, the picturesqueness and idiosyncrasies of the 
motley group. 


HOME MAKING 

“Cooking means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of 
Calypso, and of Helen, and of Rebekah, and of the Queen of Sheba. 
It means the knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms, and 
spices; and of all that is healing and sweet in fields and groves, and 
savory in meats; it means carefulness, and inventiveness, and watch¬ 
fulness, and willingness, and readiness of appliance; it means the 
economy of your great-grandmothers, and the science of modern 
chemists; it means much tasting, and no wasting; it means English 
thoroughness, and French art, and Arabian hospitality; and it means, 
in fine, that you are to be perfectly and always “ladies”—“loaf- 
givers .”—John Ruskin. 

The Furnishing of the Modest Home, by Fred Hamilton 
Daniels. Atkinson. 

A helpful book written practically and with sympathy. The author 
discusses house-planning, the walls and floors, the furniture of the 
various rooms, the selection of pictures and the small ornaments. 

The Complete Housekeeper, by Emily Holt. McClure. 

A veritable encyclopedia on the subject. It begins with the kitchen 
and tells about house-cleaning, closets, the laundry, the cleaning of 
glass, china and metal, and the keeping of things, plumbing and 
sanitation, lighting and heating, the sick room and nursing, and the 
family sewing. 

Lessons in Cooking Through Preparation of Meals, by Eva 
Roberts Robinson, Helen Gunn Hammel. 

Am. Sch. Home Economics. 

A good introduction to cooking is the practical problem of getting 
a definite meal. This book gives all the recipes required for all the 
meals in a home for an entire year beginning with September. There 
are practical hints upon costs and utensils, and there is a good 
bibliography. 

A New Book of Cookery, by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Little. 

There is no end to cook books, but the many years’ success of 
the Boston Cooking School Cook Book is certainly a warrant for a 
satisfying new handbook by its author. Miss Farmer gives nearly 
890 recipes, and the book is abundantly illustrated. 


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Increasing Home Efficiency, by Martha Bensley Bruere 
and Robert W. Bruere. Macmillan. 

This is a clever volume on the subject of Home Economics. The 
statistics upon living within certain incomes are discussed and com¬ 
parisons drawn between various typical methods of spending and 
saving the family income. Countless original labor-saving devices, 
making use of means at hand to reduce expenses and spare strength, 
both in the home and in the community, the question of educating 
and caring for the children and many other problems constantly 
recurring in the home are fully considered in a practical and soul- 
searching manner. 

The book discusses in a simple and practical way methods of divid¬ 
ing an income, of making a budget, of administering the home, of 
marketing, of cutting down the cost of living, of saving, and of 
paying the expenses of the children and launching them into their 
vocations. This is a veritable textbook for men and women who wish 
to conduct their households economically and efficiently. 

Practical Home-Making, by Mabel Hyde Kittredge. Century. 

Miss Kittredge has done a unique work in the world as head of a 
model housekeeping center on Henry Street in New York City. In 
this model home she has lived with self-sacrificing energy for a num¬ 
ber of years, showing mothers of the humbler sort how to do in an 
economical way the simple things which go to the making of a home. 
This counsel she has gathered into a book which she has designed for 
girls in their first year of domestic science studies. A few of the 
selected topics are, “Care of the Stove,” “Beds and Bed Making,” 
“Setting the Breakfast Table,” “Cleaning the Kitchen,” “Table Eti¬ 
quette,” “Bathing the Sick,” “Good Things to Remember that Are 
Often Forgotten.” 

The Boston School Kitchen Textbook, by Mary J. Lincoln. 

Little. 

A standard textbook for schools recently revised. It will be help¬ 
ful to older girls who do not have cooking in school and who want 
to know all about cooking, taking care of a kitchen and serving food. 


Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing Dish Dainties, by Janet 
McKenzie Hill. Little. 

Many girls who think cooking drudgery do like to make the more 
artistic dainties. This book gives careful directions not only as to 
making these various articles of food, but as to the serving of them 
in a dainty fashion. Besides the recipes, there are many good pic¬ 
tures of various viands as they should appear when placed on the 
table. 


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SCIENCE AND HANDICRAFT 

“There never was so much room for the best as there is today.”— 
W. M. Thayer. 

Canoe and Boat Building, by Victor Slocum. Outing. 

All of us like to think we could build a boat if we had to. Mr. 
Slocum tells us how to do it. Designs are given for the various 
types of canoes as well as full descriptions for preparing the material 
and putting it together. Small dories and lapstreak boats are also 
included. 

Mechanics and Some of Its Mysteries, by V. E. Johnson. 

Doran. 

A little “play book” of physics and mechanics, showing how to make 
experiments with spinning tops, gyroscopes, boomerangs, pendulums 
and designographs. 

Box Furniture, by Louise Brigham. Century. 

This book shows how to make a hundred different articles for the 
home out of boxes. This is the kind of handicraft which will appeal 
to boys because it does not require much technical skill. Each de¬ 
scription tells just what kind of a box is necessary, what other ma¬ 
terial must be used,Just the dimensions of each part and every item 
about construction. 

Electricity and Electrical Magic, by V. E. Johnson. Doran. 

A simple book showing how to do tricks with electricity. It in¬ 
cludes experiments with induction coils, small motors, magnets and 
X-rays. 

Flying and Some of Its Mysteries, by V. E. Johnson. Doran. 

This small book tells how to make a fire balloon, a gas balloon and 
a parachute; also how to make kites, gliders and model monoplanes. 

Chemistry and Chemical Magic, by V. E. Johnson. Doran. 

A small book on how to do chemical experiments and tricks. It 
shows how to make spirit pictures and sympathetic writing, how to 
produce liquid color effects, parlor fireworks, chemical vegetation, 
freezing and other novel scientific tricks. 

Hand Work in Wood, by William Noyes. Manual Arts. 

A book for teachers and older boys about the whole field of wood¬ 
work. It begins with logging and milling, seasoning and tools. Then 
it describes how to fit up a shop, how to make the common joints and 
how to make the various types of small wooden structures. There 
is a chapter on the practice of joinery and upon wood finishing. There 
is also a valuable list of books. This is distinctly for advanced 
students. 


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Metal Work and Etching, by John D. Adams. 

Popular Mechanics. 

Here are pictures and working drawings of a variety of beautiful 
objects to be made mostly out of thin brass. The best work could 
only be done with a teacher, but no doubt many young people of 
high school age could accomplish very creditable results by follow¬ 
ing these directions alone. 

Electricity. 

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus. 
Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity. 

By Thos. M. St. John. St. John. 

Good as general informational textbooks. Most of the books sup¬ 
posedly written for boys about electricity and mechanics are alto¬ 
gether too technical, and presuppose knowledge of physics and of 
processes which the boys have not. Consequently, when the boys 
try to follow out directions, they become soon involved and so get 
mixed up and discouraged. St. John is considered better than most, 
but not adequate from a standpoint of simplicity and concrete direc¬ 
tion and pattern illustration. 

Harper's Machinery Book for Boys. Harper. 

Good, clear, simple. “Purpose of book to show how to take part,” 
to understand the great world of industry open to us through modern 
labor-saving inventions. Gives some good practical ways and means 
to this end for bright boys to follow. 

Nature and the Camera, by A. Radclyffe Dtigmore. Doubleday. 

How to Photograph Live Birds and Their Nests; Animals, Wild 
and Tame; Reptiles; Insects; Fish and Other Aquatic Forms; Flow¬ 
ers, Trees and Fungi. 

Dr. Dugmore was the leader and is an expert in the new move¬ 
ment of photographing live birds, animals, fish, flowers, etc. From 
the choice of a camera to the problems of “snapping” shy birds and 
animals in their native haunts—he here explains every step so simply 
as to easily be comprehended, even by the beginner. 

Photography for Young People, by Tudor Jenks. Stokes. 

Mr. Jenks ingeniously combines a sketch of the history and de¬ 
velopment of photography with many practical details as to how to 
go to work. “In this book,” he says, “we shall try to tell even the 
beginner how he may learn to use his camera, his chemicals and his 
material to the best advantage. We shall not forget that some like 
to work without bothering themselves with why results come; for 
such we hope to give plain directions based upon the best authorities. 
For those who wish not only to do good work, but to be able to vary 
the work and to understand each step they take, we shall try to give 
equally plain explanations pointing out the reasons for what is done.” 
There are about twenty helpful illustrations. 


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The Story of Great Inventions, by Elmer Ellsworth Burns. 

Harper. 

This graphic narrative ranges from Archimedes to wireless teleg¬ 
raphy, and includes vivid presentations of the conditions and circum¬ 
stances of the greatest basic discoveries. Archimedes and his lever 
and screw and discoveries in specific gravity, Galileo and the rela¬ 
tions of the earth and sun, Newton and gravitation, Watt and his 
predecessors in the harnessing of steampower, Morse and the tele¬ 
graph, Bell and the telephone, Edison and electric lighting, and Mar¬ 
coni and wireless telegraphy are among the stories of discoveries 
told simply, vividly, and with constant human interest. There is 
nothing technical or abstruse in the narrative, but it is rather a re¬ 
markably clean-cut series of stories of men confronted by the un¬ 
known, and the way they have solved the mysteries before them. It 
is the romance of the pioneers in applied science. 

How It Works, by Archibald Williams. Nelson. 

Boys of a mechanical bent will be interested in this book. It ex¬ 
plains in easy, non-technical language, the steam engine, steam tur¬ 
bine, internal combustion engine, wireless telegraph, telephone; all 
sorts of electrical apparatus, railway brakes, signaling optics, micro¬ 
scope, telescope, talking machines, hydraulic machinery, heating and 
lighting, and various mechanisms.” 

How It Is Made, by Archibald Williams. Nelson. 

A good book of general information regarding machinery and 
manufacture of familiar articles. Good illustrations of process and 
of machinery in operation, etc. 

FICTION 

“Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet 
know what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts, proof 
against all adversity; bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble his¬ 
tories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of pleasant and restful 
thoughts, which care cannot disturb nor pain make gloomy, nor 
poverty take away from us—houses built without hands for our 
souls to live in .”—John Ruskin. 

For Young People, 14—16 

^Across the Campus— A Story of Smith College Life, by 
Caroline M. Fuller. Scribner. 

This is an excellent college story for girls. It gives a large view 
of the fun and festivities as well as the deeper purposes which make 
up the college life from Freshman through Senior year. Herein lies 
the greatest worth of the book, that it deals in a very vital way with 
a very real question or sentiment which any girl is likely to meet in 
her college life. 

The story is well told with an avoidance of false sentimentality 
and with a deeper purpose than often underlies girls’ college stories. 


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Stover at Yale, by Owen Johnson. Stokes. 

“Stover at Yale” is a splendid story of the present day student life 
in our American colleges. Stover is a typical American and a born 
leader. He comes to Yale from Lawrenceville Preparatory School, 
where he has been the “big man in a big school.” His keen anticipa¬ 
tion of leading his class at Yale is not disappointed. He is “taken up” 
at once by the leading lights in the Sophomore classes and speedily 
initiated into the system of things to which he must submit in. order 
that he may make good for the college societies later on. His am¬ 
bition as well as his innate aristocracy inclines him to the exclusive¬ 
ness of the college societies. But as he comes in close contact with 
some of the worth-while, thinking men who stand outside the magic 
circle, his native independence sturdily asserts itself and he throws 
aside his personal ambition and goes in with the democratic element 
of his class. He is greatly misunderstood at first by his old friends; 
but he wins out when the Sophomore societies are abolished. Through 
his leadership, his whole class is brought together on a democratic 
basis. 

For the Honor of the School, by Ralph Henry Barbour. 

Appleton. 

Ralph Henry Barbour is a popular author with boys. This is be¬ 
cause he understands them, and writes a clean-cut story about the 
right sort of athletics. He knows from experience that some of the 
best life lessons and high ideals of service and good fellowship may 
come to a boy through his interest in football, baseball and other 
sports. 

“For the Honor of the School” is the story of a boys’ school on the 
Hudson. Wayne Gordon comes to Hillton from a little Virginia 
town where he has been educated in a private school. This proves a 
handicap at first with his lessons and in his athletic interests. In 
fact, he has “no use” for athletics at first, but his interest develops 
through the compulsory work in the gymnasium, and when his enthu¬ 
siasm is aroused, he enters on the racetrack for the final intercol¬ 
legiate meet. The dogged perseverance which he shows in overcom¬ 
ing difficulties marks the character of the boy, who is dubbed the 
“pluckiest and obstinatist fellow in the school.” He wins the inter¬ 
collegiate race and is elected as leader of the track team for the 
succeeding year. The comradeship of the four chums, Paddy, Dave, 
Dan and Wayne, and all the good times they have together is a record 
of clean, wholesome friendship and good sport. 

Baby Elton, Quarter-back, by Leslie W. Quirk. Century. 

This is a perfectly splendid story of college life. Its stirring events 
are full of the enthusiasm which inspires college and class spirit, and 
full of the heroism which makes a lad the idol of the college. The 
hero is well worth knowing. 

It tells the experiences of an all-round honest boy, whose straight¬ 
forward work in athletics won his classmates and helped win honors 
for his university. From the time of the first cane rush to the hour 
when he breaks the intercollegiate record on the racetrack, Baby 

, Elton is a manly success all through. 


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Two College Girls, by Helen Dawes Brown. Houghton. 

“Two College Girls” is the story of Edna Howe and Rosamond 
Mills, who are roommates at college. The girls are a great contrast. 
At first they do not like one another, and the story of how their dis¬ 
like changes into strong, warm friendship is a very good one. There 
is a sweet love story interwoven with the incidents of college life. It 
is a good, wholesome book, adapted to girls 14 —16. 

The New Senior at Andover, by Herbert D. Ward. Lothrop. 

This is a story of the famous Phillips Academy at Andover, some 
twenty years ago. The hero, John Strong, is a plain, quiet, sturdy 
fellow who, in spite of his lameness, earns his way through the 
Academy doing “odd jobs” for “Uncle Jim,” which is the boys’ pet 
name for the famous principal, James Tyler. He endures a good 
many hardships in a plucky sort of way, makes many friends through 
his loyalty to what he thinks is right, stands by “Doc,” his chum, 
through his long illness in spite of running behind in his lessons. 

The story is a strong one, told in a simple, manly fashion, by a man 
who is a graduate of Andover, and who writes from the standpoint 
of one who loves every stick and stone and old barracks about the 
place. 

Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Altemus. 

A ghost story of Christmas. “He has not only pleased us—he has 
softened the hearts of a whole generation. He made charity fashion¬ 
able ; he awakened pity in the hearts of sixty millions of people. He 
made a whole generation keep Christmas with acts of helpfulness to 
the poor; and every barefooted boy and girl in the streets of England 
and America today fares a little better, gets fewer cuffs and more 
pudding because Charles Dickens lived and wrote.” Quoted by 
Laurence Hutton from the public press at the time of Dickens’ death. 

Westward Ho, by Charles Kingsley. Macmillan. 

This probably is the finest boys’ story book ever written. It takes 
the reader, in a succession of breathless activities, from England to 
America and home again, in the best days of adventure that ever 
were, the days of good Queen Bess. The boys who want to go away 
to sea find their own spirit embodied in that of Amyas Leigh, and it 
may be, after a little serious thought, that he will see his own hot¬ 
headedness mirrored in that sturdy young hero’s life. 

Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott. Burt. 

Sir Walter was at his best as a story teller when portraying the 
life of some adventurous hero of his own highlands. Through this 
stirring novel, he has immortalized the wandering patriot and the 
beautiful lake besides which he made his home. The young person 
who thinks that Scott is hard reading will not go far in this book 
before he loses himself in the narrative and finds himself sitting up 
nights to finish it, 


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Ivan hoe, by Sir Walter Scott. Burt. 

“This is one of the great works of fiction, is of historical value for 
its graphic pictures of the Saxons and Normans in England after the 
Norman occupation of the land.” The tournament at Ashby, the siege 
of Torquilstone, the trial of Rebecca, the Jewess,—these are a few 
incidents in this story 

“of the days of old 
When knights were bold.” 

Robin Hood, under the name of Locksley, the yeoman, appears as one 
of the characters. All of Scott’s novels are, of course, highly recom¬ 
mended for young people. 

Cranford, by E. C. Gaskell. Crowell. 

Mrs. Gaskell’s masterpiece, which Lord Houghton described as “the 
finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to British 
literature since Charles Lamb.” Calm and composure breathe from 
every page of this picture of life in a small English town during the 
first half of the nineteenth century. Have we not all in imagination 
visited Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty, played preference at Miss Betty 
Barker’s and helped the Honorable Mrs. Jamieson into her sedan 
chair? Many girls of fourteen are quite able to appreciate the book’s 
charm.— Arnold. 

Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott. Burt. 

No one has ever put down in words a more graphic and stirring 
record of the times of Queen Elizabeth than has the “wizard of the 
North” in this memorable book. Across its pages, as if across the 
stage of a great drama, walk the Virgin Queen and her many lovers, 
the hapless Amy Robsart, the great Shakespeare and all the other 
brilliant figures of that golden age. This novel is an introduction to 
Warwickshire as well as to history, and young people who travel 
should certainly read Kenilworth before they go to England. 

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, and Lovey Mary, by Alice 
Hegan Rice. Century. 

These two stories, really one, give us the irrepressible humor of 
brave hearts that live in the midst of poverty. Some of the incidents 
are farcical and wholly improbable, but the humor is irresistible and 
the sunshine atmosphere has given them a widespread influence. The 
story of the way Lovey Mary came up will be a sweet inspiration to 
many a girl. 

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The Heart of Midlothian, by Sir Walter Scott. Burt. 

Around that stone heart which lies embedded in the high street of 
Edinburgh have beaten and throbbed countless other hearts. Sir 
Walter Scott brings before us a wondrous picture of that remarkable 
city and lets ys iptp the atmosphere pf the days of religious persecy- 


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tion and dauntless religious conviction. Jeanie Deans is one of the 
greatest heroines of fiction, and no one goes to Edinburgh today 
without hunting up the cottage which is said to have been her home. 
Thus does the magic of the romancer make his fabled characters 
more real than those of history. It is a pathetic yet a brave story, 
and young people have always enjoyed it. 

Mich a Clark, and The White Company, by Sir A. Conan 
Doyle. Burt. 

It is said to be a regret of the gifted author that the success of his 
ingenious Sherlock Holmes stories has obscured his more thoughtful 
work. This regret must be shared by the reader. Pleasing though 
Doyle’s detective stories are, they do not compare in sustained interest 
and dramatic power with these two splendid novels of English history. 
In them are heroic characters, stirring incidents and the expression 
of high ideals. 

The Three Guardsmen, by Alexander Dumas. Dutton. 

No doubt this is the most dashing romance that was ever written. 
It seems paced by the galloping of horsemen. The adventures of 
D’Artagnan and his three fearless comrades draw the reader with 
restless haste from one page to another. It is a wonderful picture 
which Dumas paints, in colors too bright for reality, no doubt, of the 
gorgeous days of Louis the Magnificent. Dumas was not a moralist, 
and this is not a book for Sunday-school libraries, yet it is in the 
main wholesome, for it speaks for loyalty to friends and country and 
readiness for duty, no matter how difficult or dangerous. It is one of 
the half dozen greatest story books ever written. 

The Passing of the Third Floor Back, by Jerome K. Jerome. 

Dodd. 

This modern miracle play, with its deep religious meaning, has been 
seen and enjoyed by many thousand American young people. Those 
who have seen it and those who have not will equally enjoy its read¬ 
ing. It is, as most of you know, the story of a mysterious stranger 
who comes to a sordid boarding house, and whose unselfish and 
tactful personality works an almost miraculous change. Many read¬ 
ers believe that the book is intended to portray a modern incarnation 
of the Christ; but this, of course, we must leave our readers to decide. 

Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson. Little. 

The story of Ramona brings us into living touch with an important 
problem of our civilization, the unjust treatment of the Indians by 
our government. 

The story is a sad one, told with stern reality and touching pathos 
which is wholesome in its serious purposefulness—that of bringing a 
grave situation in our American civilization close' home to the reader’s 
heart. The pictures of the ranch life in Mexico are well drawn. The 
descriptions of the gradual decay of the old Spanish Missions and 
the remnant of the fine old Franciscan Fathers is told with great 

sympathy and beautiful appreciation. 


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Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Burt. 

This is the personal narrative of Richard Henry Dana, of his two 
years’ experience at sea. He was an undergraduate at Harvard when 
he sailed, and this adds much to the literary charm of the narrative, 
which throughout is filled with beautiful poetic and artistic feeling. 
This mingling of the literary with the careful seamanship makes the 
story a classic of sea life. It shows an accuracy and fidelity to details 
which is remarkable. The descriptions are picturesque. It is written 
in fluent style, but the author uses the short Anglo-Saxon words best 
adapted for such stories. He made daily entries in his notebook, and 
throughout this daily journal is disclosed his “enthusiasm, sympathy 
for his fellows and his great interest in new scenes and strange 
peoples.” 

Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore. Crowell . 

“A tale of Devon concerning the savage in- the year 1673, deeds of 
the Doones in the depths of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the 
hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd’s 
herculean power and the exploits of Tom Faggus.” 

Lorna Doone! The very name associates itself with the flowing of 
the mountain brook in the land of the Doones! Lorna, with her 
sweet, wildwood ways and gentle dignity, caught like a caged bird 
in the castle of the Doones! “John Ridd”—his name tells you of the 
sturdy, slow English lad who loved her as a child and who won her 
in true English fashion by fighting and waiting for her! The setting 
of the story in its homely details of English country life in the seven¬ 
teenth century is good in its simple contrast to the lonely life of Lorna 
in the wilder home of the Robber Barons. 

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Burt. 

This was Dickens’ only historical novel. It sometimes seems as if 
he had caught somewhat of the magic of Hugo when he wrote this 
stirring tale of the- days of the guillotine. It was a painstaking task, 
this of reproducing the Reign of Terror, and the book has been 
praised for its excellent historical atmosphere. More than that, how¬ 
ever, it tells the- story of a lost life redeemed in the hour of death by 
heroic self-abnegation. 

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. Burt. 

It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually 
a picture of the author’s own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of 
the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last cen¬ 
tury. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures, and 
through these pages walk one of Dickens’ wonderful processions of 
characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody 
cares for Dickens’ heroines, least of all for Dora; but, take it all in 
all, this book is enjoyed by young people more than any other of the 
great novelist. After having read this, you will wish to read “Nicho¬ 
las Nickleby” for its mingling of pathos and humor; “Martin 
Chuzzlewit” for its pictures of American life as seen through English 
eyes, and “Pickwick Papers” for its crude but boisterous humor. 


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Henry Esmond, by William M. Thackeray. Burt, Crowell. 

It is hard to choose which story young people should read first 
among the great novels of this keen satirist and warm-hearted hero 
lover. Henry Esmond was called by the author a “novel without a 
hero,” but Becky Sharp is one of the greatest, though not the most 
lovely, portraits in all fiction. In all of the novels of Thackeray 
there is an endeavor to paint some true English gentleman, and 
Henry Esmond is no exception. Perhaps next the young reader will 
turn to “The Newcomes” to read there the story of such a gentleman, 
noble even in adversity, or to “Pendennis” to read of one in the 
turbulent days of his youth, or again, to “The Virginians,” where our 
own Washington is portrayed, as he truly was, as an English gentle¬ 
man living across the seas. 

Nancy Stair, by Elinor Macartney Lane. Appleton. 

The story of the beautiful and accomplished Nancy Stair as told by 
her father, Lord Stair, is a delightfully intimate glimpse of this re¬ 
markable personality. For who should know her so well as “Jock,” 
her own father, who “watched her grow from a wonderful child 
into a wonderful woman; and saw her, with a man’s education, none 
but men for friends and no counselings save from her own heart, 
solve most wisely for the race the problem put to every woman of 
gift; and with sweetest reasoning and no bitter renouncings enter 
the kingdom of great womanhood?” Throughout, the story pulsates 
with the vivid personality of Nancy Stair. 

The Blue Flower, by Henry van Dyke. Scribner. 

The central idea in these stories is the search for inward happiness 
which “all men who are really alive are following, along what various 
paths with what different fortunes.” “The Blue Flower,” used by 
Novalis to signify poetry, Van Dyke uses to symbolize happiness, the 
satisfaction of the heart. This idea links the stories together in a 
beautiful way. In “The Source,” “the Lost Word,” the search of 
“The Other Wise Man” and in “The First Christmas Tree” always is 
brought out the truth that the inner happiness, the light of Spirit, 
dawns for the pilgrim who searches for it, in the heart of loving 
deed done in this present hour, in that love for God and man which 
makes the Blue Flower of Happiness bloom in the loving heart made 
sweet through lowly service of today. 

Last Days of Pompeii, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Burt. 

“A reconstruction of the splendid and luxurious Roman society of 
the first century of the Christian era, founded on the careful study of 
Latin literature and of the Pompeian antiquities; and on observation 
of modern manners and character. Brings the history of the times 
into close relation with the personal story .”—Ernest A. Baker. 

Charles O’Malley, by Charles Lever. Little, Burt. 

Adventures of an Irish dragoon in the Pensinsular campaign under 
Lord Wellington. Full accounts of daring exploits. 


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The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Conkey, Burt. 

This is by common consent the greatest novel that has been written 
this side of the Atlantic. It is, as were all Hawthorne’s works, a 
study of the soul of man. There is little incident. What takes place 
is mostly upon the arena of the heart. Here are three dark, stormy 
spirits, their darkness relieved by the brightness of a pure-hearted 
little girl. The picture of the Puritan days is slight but accurate. No 
young American should come to maturity without having read this 
book. More agreeable, and involving a pleasant girl-character, shin¬ 
ing against a sombre but interesting background, is his “House of 
the Seven Gables.” 

Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo. Donohue. 

Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” is generally considered the greatest 
novel ever written, and it is appropriate that the principal character 
of the book be drawn apart and emblazoned to the view of the char¬ 
acter student. We quote from the editor’s preface, as follows: 

“In the whole range of fiction there are few studies of the develop¬ 
ment of character that equal Victor Hugo’s chief hero, Jean Valjean. 

. . . At that age when a youth first begins to feel the dawn of all 

great possibilities in his soul he will always be strangely stirred by a 
hero who combines the physical strength of a Sandow. the inde¬ 
pendence of a Father John, the moral force of a Phillips Brooks into 
one impressive personality.” 

The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sara Orne Jewett. 

. Houghton. 

We are coming to realize that Miss Jewett is already a classic. Her 
pictures of the narrow, yet picturesque, life of New England have 
never been excelled. The incidents are simple. The stage is the 
human heart. Among the choice collections of her stories, this one is 
perhaps the best to read first. 

The Honorable Peter Stirling, by Paul Leicestor Ford. 

Holt, Grosset. 

The Honorable Peter Stirling is said to be a story based on the inci¬ 
dents in the career of Grover Cleveland. Peter Stirling is a young 
lawyer, who makes his first reputation in fighting a case where impure 
milk has poisoned a little child. His simple eloquence in stating the 
truth wins him a practice at once. He is drawn into politics, becomes 
the “boss” of a tough downtown ward, and uses all his sturdy influ¬ 
ence to have clean politics and to make for right conditions in the 
tenements by establishing pure food laws, etc. His forceful purpose¬ 
fulness and fearless honesty overcome all obstacles, for bosses and 
voters alike find that the man who tells the truth on all occasions and 
who fights a thing to its finish is bound to win out. 

The story is well written, the plot is a powerful one, and the devel¬ 
opment of Peter’s character under the pressure of circumstances a 
remarkable study. The love incident is full of delicate humor and 
poetic charm. 


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Richard Carvel, by Winston Churchill. Macmillan. 

In this fine book, Winston Churchill gives to us the life and adven¬ 
tures of Richard Carvel, a gentleman of the Maryland colony in the 
time just preceding the American Revolution. When, through the 
treachery of his uncle, Richard is kidnapped by the pirates and res¬ 
cued from his unseemly fate by John Paul Jones, who carries him 
on his merchant vessel to London, the author brings his readers into 
close touch with one of the most remarkable and unique characters 
of that time, the hero of the great sea fight between the “Bon Homme 
Richard” and the “Serapis.” 

The fortune of Richard Carvel, American gentleman, in the social 
life of the great London of this period gives a very realistic and 
sympathetic insight into the gay life of the English gentry at this time 
and brings one into intimate contact with some of its most celebrated 
men—Carlyle, Charles Fox, Horace Walpole and others. The story 
of the fight between the “Bon Homme Richard” and the “Serapis” is 
given with great dramatic power, and the marvelous courage and 
coolness of the hero, John Paul Jones, who seven times regained the 
fight when it was all but lost, is set forth with thrilling intensity! 

John Halifax, Gentleman, by Dinah Maria Mulock. 

Crowell, Bart. 

“John Halifax, Gentleman”—the title is the story reduced to its 
highest terms. The innate manhood which is within John Halifax 
lifts him, through his own self-mastery, from his estate of homeless 
orphan, first to the humble position of driver of hides in Abel 
Fletcher’s tan yard. Then he becomes master workman and the right- 
hand man of his employer, who relies upon his able judgment and 
keen understanding of men in times of crisis. Because he is one of 
nature’s noblemen, he becomes a leader among men; the rich owner 
of the mills, the prosperous country gentleman, John Halifax, 
Esquire, of Beechwood Hall. This is surely one of the hundred best 
books of the nineteenth century. 

The Little Minister, by J. M. Barrie. Caldwell, Burt. 

Mr. Barrie’s picturing of Scottish village life and characters is a 
delightful one in his story of “The Little Minister.” Gavin Dishart, 
untried and tremendously in earnest in his high calling, is given charge 
of the Auld Licht Manse in Thrumms, where he at once becomes the 
property of all the Kirk and village folk, subject at all times to their 
fond interference and severe criticism. His experiences are told with 
the mingling of quaint humor and delicate pathos which characterizes 
the author. The story of the Little Minister’s manly love is told 
with great tenderness and beauty. The plot is a strong one and is 
given with true dramatic power. 

Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ, by Lew. Wallace. Harper 

“Ben-Hur” is a classic story of the greatest epoch in history. It is 
also one of the most successful examples of modern romantic fiction. 

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of Nazareth is portrayed with a realism and beauty which carries the 
reader into the very scenes in which the Christ was a Man among 
men. The coming of the Wise Men; the birth of the Baby in Beth¬ 
lehem ; the healing ministry of the Master are told with a power not 
found elsewhere, apart from the Bible. The book is sure to make 
its deep and lasting impression upon the boys and girls who read it, 
and it is one to which they will return again. 

The Virginian, by Owen Wister. Macmillan, Grosset. 

“The Virginian” is a. story of Wyoming Territory in the early 
period between 1864 and 1890, a story of the days when the West was 
still in its wild and woolly state and the Cowboy of the Plains was a 
picturesque but roughshod reality. The Virginian is a fine specimen 
of this unique product of western civilization—in his strong, quiet 
nature, true to its trust as foreman of the ranch, and true to his 
friends, and in his bigness and silence, born of the long contact with 
the great stretches of prairie land and the far reach of the mountains. 
The keen wit and love of fun, which finds its outlet in the uncouth 
horseplay of these primitive folk, yet withal the good fellowship and 
clean-minded simplicity of the man, makes his characterization true 
to the life of the times. 

The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade. Dutton. 

Sir Walter Besant once said that this is the greatest historical 
novel ever written, and no one has written to dispute the verdict. 
Reade was a dramatist as well as a novelist, and one reads this book 
with a sense of being a spectator of some great play. It is a story of 
the fifteenth century, just at the juncture of the invention of printing, 
and the shadow of the influence of that mighty invention is felt 
through all the events of the story. One of the great motives of 
fiction plots is that of travel, and the author ingeniously arranges to 
carry his hero through Germany and into Italy, thus picturing human 
conditions in these countries in a graphic way, and always without 
tiresomeness. There are many lively incidents in the story, and the 
deepening love-interest brings the book to an almost epic conclusion. 

Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo. Crowell. 

There were two masterpieces, the product of this mighty mind, one 
a comedy of humanity, “Les Miserables,” the other a pathetic idyl, 
“Notre Dame.” The character of the little gypsy girl is one of the 
daintiest and most appealing in all literature. The author ingeniously 
contrives to put this little girl against the background of a notable 
cathedral and a tragic age, like a dove against a thunder cloud. It is 
a book of fascinating interest and noble theme. 

Abbe Constantin, by Ludovic Halevy. Crowell, Burt. 

One of those delicately phrased stories for which the French seem 
to have a genius. It moves on quietly, giving incidentally vivid pic¬ 
tures of French home life and successfully portraying a simple- 
hearted and unselfish Roman father, true to the ideals of his church, 
yet not spoiled in his human interest, 


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The Egoist, by George Meredith. Scribner. 

It would not be fair to young people to leave them without men¬ 
tioning the greatest novelist who has lived since Dickens and Thack¬ 
eray, and we believe it will be wise to recommend to them his greatest 
. book. “The Egoist” cannot be said to be a pleasing book in the sense 
of being “a pretty story.” It is said that an English nobleman once 
accosted Meredith with this complaint: “It is too bad, Meredith; it is 
not fair. That book of yours is all about me.” “No,” answered the 
novelist gently, “it is about all of us.” Mr. Meredith so keenly por¬ 
trays the character of a self-centered man that the reader feels him¬ 
self singled out as the culprit, yet, though he wriggles, he cannot but 
enjoy the genius of the book. 

The Seats of the Mighty, by Sir Gilbert Parker. Appleton. 

A fine romance of England both sides of the Atlantic. The story 
gives a splendid picture of England in the days when she was wres¬ 
tling with France for the possession of the new world, and then turns 
to Canada and tells us how the battle waged among these new-found 
possessions. It is a heroic story, with a fine love story interwoven. 

All Sorts and Conditions of Men, by Sir Walter Besant. Burt. 

This story is not only worth reading, but it did something. Its 
description of the social needs of the poor of London gave rise to 
important means of relief. Mr. Besant dreamed what a people’s 
palace could do, and since then his interesting prophecy has been 
fulfilled in social settlements both sides of the Atlantic. 

Lavengro, and The Romany Rye, by George Borrow. Dutton. 

Not all young people will like these two books, which are prac¬ 
tically one, but those who do will find them inexhaustible. They 
pretend to be a story, but they are practically a history of the author’s 
life, with some embellishments. The chapters are almost unrelated to 
each other, and one can begin anywhere and find that he has begun 
at a good place. Borrow had the keenest eye for the picturesqueness 
of ordinary people and ordinary circumstances; he seems to be able 
to get an adventure out of the most unlikely circumstances. This is 
a good bedside book and a good book to take on a walk. 

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Burt. 

This book is surely worth reading for what it did. According to 
some, its influence precipitated the Civil War. Every one is agreed 
that it had a profound influence in stirring up the problems of slavery. 
It has had*a larger sale than almost any other book of fiction ever 
written, and although it is crude in some details and no doubt over¬ 
drawn in many of its incidents, it was and remains a book of vision. 
It saw a terrible condition, probably with prejudice, but it saw that 
condition with the eye of genius, and this great book, written with a 
pen of fire, cannot be read even now without the deepest feeling. 


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Romola, by George Eliot. Crowell. 

Thoughtful young people will enjoy this story, partly because of its 
accurate pictures of Florence in the days of Savonarola, and partly 
because of its description of the tragic decline of a lovable but weak 
character. Those who do not like “Romola” may like “The Mill on 
the Floss,” especially its early chapters picturing the friendship of a 
boy and girl, brother and sister. 

Hypatia, by Charles Kingsley. Burt, Century. 

The historians tell us that nobody wrote a more accurate descrip¬ 
tion of the Golden Age of Alexandria than is given by this gifted 
novelist in this popular story. The young reader will be more inter¬ 
ested, however, in the brave tragedy of its heroine—to have known 
Hypatia, to have felt with her and to have moved with sympathy 
through the darkening steps of her noble career is to have had one 
of the worth-while experiences of life. 

To Have and to Hold, by Mary Johnston. Houghton, Grosset. 

This novel of early Jamestown days has had an immense and well- 
deserved popularity. It pictures on a large canvas the early days of 
the sturdy Virginia settlers. The strong character of its heroine as 
it comes into contact with the equally strong character of the hero 
gives a wholesome love story. 

The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells. 

Houghton, Grosset 

There was never a better picture in American literature of the 
business success of a Yankee than this one by our veteran novelist. 
The New England atmosphere, the youth in the city boarding house, 
the audacity of business enterprise and the humanity that persists 
even in business shrewdness—these have been wonderfully portrayed 
in Mr. Howells’ early, and we think, his best work. 

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Dutton 

Among all the more quiet novels of English life and character of 
the eighteenth century, none are more charming than “Cranford” and 
“Pride and Prejudice” 'The young person who likes this book will 
like all those of Miss Austen’s, and thereby gain a pleasant introduc¬ 
tion to some charming people and a very quiet and wholesome kind 
of life. 


POETRY 

The Oxford Book of English Verse. Edited by Sir Arthur 
T. Quiller-Couch. Oxford. 

On the whole, the best comprehensive collection of English poetry 
now extant. It is more full and less classical and more romantic 
than Palgrave’s “Golden Treasury,” which has for many years main¬ 
tained a position of pre-eminence. 


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An American Anthology. Edited by Edmund Clarence Sted- 
man. Houghton. 

This is, no doubt, the best collection of American poems that has 
ever been brought together. The editor himself was a poet and critic 
of no mean rank. The selections are arranged by periods, dates and 
authors. There are many thorough indices. It is, of course, not in¬ 
tended to be read through at once, but as a reference to our poetical 
literature it is most complete. Young people will enjoy dipping in it 
from time to time, and will find it worth while to have convenient for 
purposes of reference. A companion collection by the same editor 
is entitled “A Victorian Anthology.” Both these books were origi¬ 
nally intended as interpretative of two others by this author, one a 
history of America and the other of recent English literature. 

Poems of Action. Edited by David R. Porter. Y. M. C. A. 

The best anthology for boys. Even those who think they do not 
“care for poetry” cannot help liking this virile collection of soldier 
songs and tunes of courage. We commend it to all you who 

“Count the life of battle good 

And dear the land that gave you birth, 

And dearer yet the brotherhood 
That binds the brave of all to earth.” 

Poems by Henry W. Longfellow. Houghton. 

Longfellow has been called “the children’s poet,” and so perhaps 
he will always be known. After his days of great publicity there 
was an apparent decline of interest in his verses, due perhaps to the 
critics who saw in him only an imitator and a moralist. We are be¬ 
ginning to see, however, that he was our greatest ballad writer and 
that he did a great service in bringing the riches of the old world as 
well as the romance of the new to our minds and hearts. His longer 
poems, “Hiawatha,” “Evangeline” and “The Courtship of Miles 
Standish,” are true and worthy pictures of the spirit of the early 
days and the early settlers of America! but he is loved and will be 
remembered more for his shorter poems of tenderness and sympathy. 

Poems by Sir Walter Scott. Crowell. 

The “magician of the North” is the greatest story teller who ever 
lived, whether he speaks in prose or sings in verse. The youth who 
thinks he does not like poetry has learned to like “The Lady of the 
Lake” and “Marmion.” In these stirring songs ones sees reflected the 
courage of Scotland and the marvelous beauty of her scenery. Scott 
was not an analytical poet and he did not soar high, but no narrative 
verses have ever been written to compare with his. 

Poems by John G. Whittier. Crowell. 

No one ever loved New England more than did our Quaker poet, 
and no one ever wrote her praises more beautifully. “Snowbound” 
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winter in the country ever painted. But Whittier will be longest 
remembered, as he is cherished in England as well as America today, 
as our greatest devotional poet. There are deep places in the heart 
that Whittier touches that are not found by many poets who are 
more famous. 

Poems by James R. Lowell. Houghton. 

The unevenness of Lowell as a poet has prevented his being loved 
as are Longfellow and Whittier. At his highest, he rises higher than 
any other American poet, and at his lowest he drops farther. Every 
young heart responds to the “Vision of Sir Launfal” and marches 
with his great “Commemoration Ode” and loves the music of many 
of his lyrics. Few are thoughtful enough to appreciate his greatest 
song, “The Cathedral.” 

Poems of Robert Burns. Houghton. 

Burns is one of the immortals whose life and works need to be 
read together. Not all the songs of Burns are to be recommended to 
young people, but they cannot do any harm if they are read side by 
side with the story of his life. In simple love of Nature, in praise of 
the home, in the passionateness of young love, Burns remains the 
greatest singer of the English-speaking world. 


BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY 

“Read how others strove, 

Till we are stouter; 

What they renounced, 

Till we are less afraid; . . . 

Brave names of men 
And celestial women 
Passed out of record 
Into renown.” 

—Emily Dickinson. 

History of the United States, by John Fiske. Houghton. 

This is a splendidly compact and comprehensive history of our 
country. The language is fine, vivid in its word pictures, and the 
work is constructive. The historian uniquely combines a fine original 
philosophic viewpoint, which produces a scholarly source book, with 
the charm of simple narrative, which makes it a delightfully readable 
story of America. 

The Making of an American, by Jacob A. Riis. Macmillan. 

That fact is stranger and more romantic than fiction is wonderfully 
proven in this remarkable autobiography of this great-hearted Dane, 
who has so well proven what the making of a true American means. 
The story of his life is told in a straightforward way, and the darkest 
spots in his early experience are lighted by his never-failing sense of 


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whole-souled humor. Jacob Riis is a splendid type of American 
citizen to give to any boy. His honesty and justice, his jovial good 
fellowship and all-embracing charity toward the weak and unfortu¬ 
nate, his hot-headed indignation over unfairness and injustice, his 
splendid power as a reformer, manifested in his keen searching out 
of wrong conditions, and then “everlastingly keeping” at it through 
press and public until the right prevailed—all mark a fine, noble, 
everyday type of the real American citizen. 

Shakespeare the Boy, by William J. Rolfe. Harper. 

This rather unusual title suggests a most unusual book. The 
author is the Shakespearean scholar and critic so well known to 
young people who are studying Shakespeare in school. The present 
volume is not formal criticism of the plays of Shakespeare, but rather 
an attempt to give young people some glimpses of rural life in Eng¬ 
land when Shakespeare was a boy, and to help them to a more intimate 
acquaintanceship with the Plays. 

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Royal Edinburgh, by Margaret O. Oliphant Burt , Macmillan. 

This book, with her “Makers of Florence” and “Makers of Venice,” 
is to be recommended as among the best to introduce young people to 
a love of history. Mrs. Oliphant was, as is well known, a novelist, 
and she writes history in the spirit of romance. It is a trite phrase, 
yet true in her case, to say that her histories read like novels. No 
better books could be read to get the human side of three great cities 
in which brave deeds have been done than these. 

Up from Slavery, by Booker T. Washington. Doubleday. 

The simple and inspiring story of the early struggles of the leader 
of the colored race in this country. Without undue pride or self- 
consciousness, Mr. Washington in telling the story of his own early 
poverty, of the prejudices which he met and overcame, of the success 
which followed, has not only set a high goal for the colored youth, 
but has given white men a deeper respect for the possibilities of the 
negro. 

An Island Story, by H. E. Marshall, Stokes. 

A child’s history of England. The biographical side is emphasized 
and the treatment is romantic. Large volume with colored pictures. 
Its companion volume, “An Empire Story,” traces the development of 
the British colonies. Uniform with these is “Scotland’s Story.” 
These three volumes are most attractive in make-up and treatment.— 
Olcott. 

The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller. Doubleday. 

Mark Twain said, “The two most interesting characters of the 
nineteenth century are Napoleon and Helen Keller.” The beauty of 
language, the poetry of imagination and power of vivid description 
acquired by this girl in the face of the greatest handicaps is mar¬ 
velous ; and the narrative of how her education made such things 
possible is of absorbing interest. 


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The Boys' Parkman. Compiled by Louise S. Hasbrouch. Little. 

The best introduction to Parkman. The editor gives us ten selec¬ 
tions from his works, including “The Discovery of the Mississippi,” 
“Indian Tribes and Traditions,” “The Fall of Quebec” and “The 
Siege of Detroit.” All the chapters have to do with Indians, their 
manners, customs and activities. Parkman in early life was enabled 
to know the Indians at first hand, at a time when they had changed 
scarcely at all from the aboriginal redman. Profusion of detail makes 
the stories like the accounts of eye-witnesses. The book is a delight¬ 
ful introduction to the works of the man whom John Fiske described 
as “the greatest American historian.” 

Life, Letters and Journals of Louisa M. Alcott, by Ednah 
D. Cheney. .Little. 

Mrs. Cheney is a wise biographer, who has selected the best from a 
fine life’s own record to tell its history. She gives a very keen analy¬ 
sis of this vital, vivid character. The portrait she has drawn of this 
simple, practical, unselfish woman, who lived such a full and busy 
life for others; the record of her trials and struggles and overcom¬ 
ings, and the account of the way in which her life work as an author 
was the direct outgrowth of her own rich and varied experience, will 
prove an inspiration to every girl who reads it. 

In the Days of Queen Elizabeth, by Eva March Tappan. 

Lothrop. 

This is the story of Good Queen Bass from the time of her birth to 
her ripe old age. Miss Tappan gives a sympathetic interpretation of 
this popular Queen, which is, at the same time, a very impartial por¬ 
trayal of her character as a charming but inconsistent woman. Her 
vanity and love of display, her policy are all given in many incidents, 
which are delightfully interwoven in the narrative. The pictures of 
Merrie England at this period are well drawn, and one sees with 
vividness the gorgeous pageant of court life, and thrills with the 
history happenings of the period as though it were a near and living 
experience. Miss Tappan’s power as a biographer lies in her ability 
to tell things in a delightful and natural way, and to weave the his¬ 
toric incidents into charming personal narrative. 


A New England Girlhood, by Lucy Larcom. Houghton. 

This autobiography of a New England girl is told in a sincere and 
beautiful way. It gives the picture of the New England village life 
of fifty years ago, as seen through the eyes of an imaginative, poetic 
girl. One feels drawn to the simplicity and goodness of the people 
through the description of their home life. Lucy Larcom’s work in 
the mills throws a clear light upon the thoughts and actions of these 
working girls which it will be well for us to see. The mill hands 
were, many of them, earnest, refined women, who were seeking inde- 


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pendence in the time when it was not so easy for a woman to become 
self-supporting. So the pictures of their lives present higher stand¬ 
ards for the working girl than generally prevail in our day. Miss 
Larcom’s description of her own imaginative childhood is a valuable 
contribution to the field of child study. 

Florence Nightingale, by Laura E. Richards. Appleton. 

This biography of Florence Nightingale is good in its simple telling 
of a noble life. Mrs. Richards has the charm of enthusiasm and 
sympathetic interpretation combined with the straightforward relat¬ 
ing of facts. 

The pictures of her childhood are well drawn in their prophecy of 
her great life work. They show the little girl who played with her 
sick dolls, nursing them back to health; who cared for the shepherd’s 
dog till his broken leg was mended; of the young maidens who 
helped the village people in their hours of sickness. With wonderful 
vividness and sympathy, Mrs. Richards tells the story of the “Angel 
of the Crimea.”' 

Life of Alice Freeman Palmer, by George Herbert Palmer. 

Houghton . 

Few women of her time were more widely loved than Alice Free¬ 
man Palmer. As an early President of Wellesley College and a pio¬ 
neer in the higher education of women she expressed ideals that 
should be familiar to our girls. President Eliot said: “To my mind, 
this career is unmatched by that of any other American woman. Mrs. 
Palmer’s life and labors are the best example thus far set before 
womanhood.” 

History of England, by C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling. 

Doubleday. 

This is an excellent history of England told in a spicy and compact 
way. The narrative is delightful in that the authors have eliminated 
so much of the tiresome detail which characterizes so many English 
histories. The large perspective of important periods and crucial 
events and famous personages is given in vivid portrayal and with 
swift action. The prose portion of the book is written by Professor 
Fletcher. The narrative is interspersed with poems by Kipling, giv¬ 
ing various incidents in the history in his own peculiar style. It is a 
splendid book adapted to young people. 

A Life of Grant for Boys and Girls, by Warren Lee Goss. 

Crowell. 

This is the only good biography of the great General and President 
which has been dedicated expressly to the boys and girls of America 
and written from material gained at first hand. The biographer was 
a soldier who served in Grant’s armies from 1861 to 1865. He knew 
the general personally, was intimately acquainted with public events 
during his two administrations, and in addition to these facts is an 
experienced and skillful writer. 


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The Son of Light Horse Harry, by James Barnes. Harper. 

This life of the great Southern statesman and Confederate General 
is told with a clear understanding and sympathy calculated to awaken 
a great love for Robert E. Lee in the heart of everybody who reads 
it. The main body of the narrative deals with that period of his life 
when, during the Mexican War, he played the part of Aide-de-Camp 
to General Winfield Scott. The meeting of those two great generals, 
Lee and Grant, “each simple and direct in their conduct under the 
weight of a great responsibility, and each looking forward with 
mutual hope and desire to the building of a future, in which their 
followers should forget all enmities and hand-in-hand labor in the 
building”; this meeting marks a great event in American history, and 
is impressively told in the story. The author shows a fine appreciation 
of this great and noble man. 

Decatur and Somers, by M. Elliot Seawell. Appleton. 

The “gentle, lovable character and quiet, undaunted courage” of 
Richard Somers are brought out in vivid contrast to the generous, 
impetuous, domineering Decatur. The fine friendship between these 
two men is a noteworthy incident in American history, and is sympa¬ 
thetically drawn by the author. Her account of the intrepid young 
Sewell’s rash attempt to destroy the ships in the Tripoli Harbor and 
the consequent loss of the brave young naval captain and his cour¬ 
ageous crew of thirteen in the “Intrepid” is given with rare dramatic 
emphasis and appreciation of the great tragedy. 

Historic Girls, by Eldridge S. Brooks. Putnam. 

This is an excellent series of simple stories of famous girls, from 
many lands and far-away times, who have done interesting things. 
The strength of the stories lies in the fact that Mr. Brooks makes one 
feel that all of the heroines were real girls, with the same dreams 
and deeds and hopes and loves as is the maid of our own twentieth 
century. It is a book full of goodly company for girls, and is worth 
living with for a time. 

A Young Man's Life of Jesus, by Bruce Barton. Crowell. 

This is generally regarded as the most attractive and practical life 
of Jesus for reading by young men and young women. The writer 
himself is a young man, successful in other lines of writing. The 
naturalness, strength and attractiveness of the character of Jesus 
are very effectively presented. 


The Story of Washington, by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye. 
Edited by Edward Eggleston. Appleton. 

Many of the famous incidents and events of his boyhood and man¬ 
hood are told in a very natural and delightful way, which reveals the 
man to us in the simple relations of life as he really was. She gives 


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many interesting details as to his home life, his habits and character¬ 
istics, which show him as a strong man with lovable and unlovable 
traits. The events of his military career are told with clearness and 
show a keen discernment of the value of this man as a great leader. 
It is the best biography of “The Father of Our Country” for young 
people. 

The Youth of Washington, by S. Weir Mitchell. Century. 

Dr. Mitchell has, in a very delightful way, caught the spirit of the 
life and times of George Washington. In translating this spirit into 
an autobiography, supposedly written by the great man himself in a 
retrospective glance at his youthful days, the author treats the sub¬ 
just in a fresh, unique way. So much has been written of the fictitious 
cherry tree type of anecdote that much of the real greatness of the 
Father of Our Country has become hidden in hackneyed fable, which 
is unfortunate. The story of the youth of Washington is full of the 
dignity and stately courtesy of the time in which he lived. The events 
of his early days and the narrative of his friendships; his home life; 
his training as a surveyor ; his youthful career as Colonel Washing¬ 
ton in the French and Indian War, are told with a rare appreciation 
of the character of this man and with a freedom from bombast which 
is delightful. The language is unusually clear and beautiful. 

The book is admirably adapted to youth and to older boys and girls 
entering college. 

The Boys' Napoleon, by H. F. B. Wheeler. Crowell. 

This is a clear and readable life of Napoleon which chronicles his 
career from childhood to his Waterloo. It is a well-written biogra¬ 
phy, which emphasizes the military genius of the great leader and 
shows the loneliness of this man among other men. The author has 
set forth with special clearness the conditions which made the Man 
of Destiny possible; and, while he refrains from unduly eulogizing 
or condemning, he has shown the results, beneficial or the reverse, 
of his marvelous career. 

Home Life in Colonial Days, by Alice Morse Earle. 

Macmillan, Grosset. 

This book gives a delightful account of home-making and house¬ 
keeping in the olden days. The author tells in a very interesting way 
about such old-time industries as candle making, hand weaving, spin¬ 
ning, etc. It is beautifully illustrated with pictures, showing the fur¬ 
niture, home life and occupations of colonial times. 

The Story of the Crusades, by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton. Crowell. 

An interesting history for older young people with many splendid 
illustrations. The book begins with the story of Mohammyd and 
takes up each of the crusades in turn, including the Children’s 
Crusade. There are many vigorous battle scenes and strong descrip¬ 
tions of characters, of Peter the Hermit, Bernard, Richard the Lion- 
hearted, Dandolo and of the capture of the Holy City. 


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ART AND MUSIC 


“For as with words the poet paints, for you 
The happy pencil at its labor sings, 

Stealing his privilege, nor does him wrong, 
Beneath the false discovering the true 
And Beauty’s best in unregarded things.” 

— Lowell. 


ART. 

How to Enjoy Pictures, by M. S'. Emery. Prang. 

The best book we know of to help young people see a lot in pic¬ 
tures. The author does not pretend to discuss the history of art or 
to deal with the personalities of the artists, but she takes thirty or 
forty pictures and describes them with the most vivid detail. The 
young person who reads this book will always afterward look with 
more keenness and appreciation than ever before upon pictures in 
galleries and illustrations in books. 

Guide to Pictures for Beginners, by Charles H. Caffin. Baker. 

This is in no sense a complete guide to individual paintings, but a 
volume of original critical judgment of the qualities required in all 
good pictures. It is illustrated by many examples and several dia¬ 
grams. 

It is a book for those who like pictures, but who do not know why 
they like them. The author, who is an eminent art critic, analyzes 
“the feeling for beauty” and indicates the possibilities for pleasure 
through the refinement of the visual sense. In a direct, personal way, 
he takes up the different principles which enter into an appreciation 
of art, and explains with force and clearness how the artistic sense 
may be developed. 


Young People's Story of Art, by Ida Prentice Whitcomb. 

Dodd. 

Because of its fullness and its multitude of illustrations, this is the 
most satisfactory reference book of art for young people who are old 
enough to be interested in its history. The human side of the artists 
and the picturesque details of the story of the great pictures are 
dwelt upon interestingly. Architecture and Sculpture as well as 
painting are discussed. The book comes down to Watts and Manet. 
There is nothing about American art. 


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MUSIC 

“Makers of song, did you say? 

Finders of song, be it told: 

The music we fashion today 
Is centuries old. 

“Only we look and we see, 

Only we hear and we sing. 

Only we find in the tree 
And we find in the spring 
The beautiful thing.” 

Young People's History of Music, by Ida Prentice Whitcomb. 

Dodd. 

A charmingly written history of music from its beginning, especially 
from the biographical side. Interspersed are descriptions of the vari¬ 
ous kinds of music and of musical instruments. The illustrations are 
mostly portraits. 

What Is Good Music? by W. J. Henderson. Scribner. 

“Author intends this book for those who find pleasure in listening 
to music and who wish to have that pleasure based on judgment 
rather than on fancy. In part one he considers the qualities of good 
music: rhythm, melody and harmony; vocal forms ; the content of 
music. Part two is devoted to the rendering of music, instrumental 
and vocal .”—Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. 

Masters of Music—Their Lives and Works, by Anna Alice 
Chapin. Dodd. 

The newly awakened interest in musical literature has produced 
much of value to general readers, but there is need of a concise and 
simple work on music such as this, especially adapted to the uses of 
the general reader, with biographies and a characterization of their 
work. 

Miss Chapin tells the stories of the composers and their creations 
in a very simple, sympathetic way. They live and move as men in a 
world of men, not simply by right of their great works. The author 
has a rare gift of sympathetic insight into the characters of which she 
writes, and of the time and environment in which they live. 

Operas Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon. 

Doubleday. 

This volume is neither a history of the opera-form nor a work of 
criticism, but an admirable introduction to the operas which every one 
should know. It tells the story of the opera; the most interesting 
events in the composer’s life; gives snatches of the melody and the 
names of the original cast. 


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Orchestral Instruments and What They Do, by Daniel 
Gregory Mason. Baker. 

This book, as its title indicates, is intended to describe the structure 
and tonal qualities of each of the instruments in an orchestra. It 
treats of them not only in particular, but also in combination, and 
contains a great deal of interesting information to boys and girls 
interested in instrumental music about the musical possibilities of 
wood and string instruments. 

How to Listen to Music, by H. E. Krehbiel. Scribner. 

This is a book for an earnest amateur who thinks he has no ear 
for or appreciation of music. It tells what constitutes the qualities of 
good music, describes rhythm, melody and harmony, the vocal forces 
and the rounding of music, instrumental and vocal. 


VOCATION AND BUSINESS 
VOCATION 

“All that has been since first the light 
Shot out across the gulfs of space .. 

Was that my crowning labor might 
Put something in its ordered place. 

The sound the toiling thousands make 
Is earth’s sublimest symphony, 

And I, a worker, proudly take 
The part assigned to me.” 

Profitable Vocations for Boys, and Profitable Vocations 
for Girls, by E. W. Weaver. Barnes. 

These books occupy an especial place between our volumes of ad¬ 
vice for children and technical and accurate treatises of financial and 
personal opportunities in the various callings. They place before 
young people and their parents the comparative advantages of the 
various vocations and suggest practical means of preparation for 
the same. 

The What-Shall-I-Do Girl, by Isabel Woodman Waitt. Page. 

A novel and attractive introduction to vocations for a girl. The 
heroine on leaving school writes to some of her old school friends to 
discover what are their experiences in various callings. Each letter 
gives a short, humorous and vivid description of experiences in milli¬ 
nery shops, on the stage, in beauty parlors, offices and other places 
where young women are employed. The last letter, from a young 
man, ends the heroine’s search for any other vocation than that of 
wifehood. Incidentally, however, this story enables a young woman 
to face pretty clearly in turn the various callings which open their 
doors to girls. 


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The Young Section-Hand, by Burton E. Stevenson. Page. 

This is a good example of the wholesome kind of story which is 
becoming popular, namely one in which fiction is used to illuminate 
the daily life in different vocations. This is perhaps the best one of 
a series upon railroad life, the others describing the train despatcher 
and the train master. The romance of the railroad, which appeals to 
every boy, is strongly emphasized in this story, yet there is a fair 
description of the drudgery which belongs to the work of a beginner. 

Starting in Life, by N. C. Fowler, Jr. Little. 

A practical book discussing professions and occupations, their 
advantages and disadvantages, and the necessary preparation for 
entrance on each career. Each chapter has been submitted for 
judgment to two or three authorities. There is a lot of “punch” to 
all that Mr. Fowler writes. 

What Can a Young Man Do? by Frank W. Rollins. Little. 

Mr. Rollins takes up each of the professions in turn, calls attention 
frankly to its advantages and disadvantages, and tells what measure 
and kind of preparation is essential to each. One of the most valu¬ 
able features of the book is the estimate he gives of the probable 
income of one who is successful in each of these callings. 

Why Go to College? by Clayton Sedgwick Cooper. Century. 

A serious discussion of college life and college influences, both on 
the undergraduate and the alumnus, is here published by a man who, 
from experience and broadmindedness, has been able to put forth his 
unprejudiced thoughts regarding all that can be said for or against 
American college system. 

His insight into the general characteristics of the undergraduate, 
his love of naturalness, his sense of humor, religious tendencies and 
honor system are w’orthy of study both to the man who is considering 
a college education for his sons and to the teachers who have under¬ 
graduates in their charge. The attitude of student to professors and 
vice versa, fraternities, class organization, traditions and the college 
spirit, are taken up with frank criticism, as is the chapter upon reasons 
for giving to college as gathered from statistics obtained by the 
author during ten years of travel among college men. The position 
of the college graduate in the world forms the subject of the last 
chapter. 

Working One's Way Through College and University, by 

Calvin Dill Wilson. McClurg. 

The aim of this book is to speak informingly and. sympathetically 
to those whose heart’s desire is to gain college and university train¬ 
ing, but do not see their way to that goal. It is a practical book con¬ 
cerning self-support for boys and girls, with direct reports from 
American colleges as to what students have actually done. There is 
an index to the colleges of America, with the prices of tuition at each. 


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Which College for the Boy? by John Corbin. Houghton. 

Breezy estimates of the life, ideals and courses of study at various 
universities and colleges, emphasizing the social and athletic side. 

Vocations for Girls, by Mary A. Laselle and Katherine Wiley. 

Houghton. 

This is the most helpful and practical of all the Houghton. Mifflin 
books on vocational preparation. With detail and directness the 
authors set forth the opportunities, pleasant and unpleasant sides and 
requirements of employment in a dozen or more vocations, among 
them stenography and typewriting, salesmanship, telephone operating, 
working in manufacturing establishments, cooking, nursing, sewing, 
millinery, modern teaching and library work. 

Vocations for the Trained Woman. Edited by Agnes F. 
Perkins. Longmans. 

A book prepared by the Woman’s Educational and Industrial Union 
of Boston; written by nearly a hundred contributors. Each con¬ 
tributor covers the following topic: The nature of the work, the 
training necessary or desirable, the opportunities and compensation. 
It is the most practical book upon the subject. • 

Choosing a Vocation, by Frank Parsons. Houghton. 

The special value of this book, which was intended orisrinally to 
show adults how to help young people rather than to help young 
people themselves, is the extended lists of questions and suggestions 
for self-examination by means of which young people study their 
own cases and thus get help in deciding what they are good for. The 
actual “sample cases” at the end of the book are interesting, some of 
them humorous and. all of them suggestive as to what not to do. 
Upon pages 100-110 are verv valuable “Suggestions for a Plan of 
Life.” 


BUSINESS 

The Young Man Entering Business, by Orison Swett Marden. 
For Boys above 15 . Crozvell. 

It has been called the most practical book the author has ever writ¬ 
ten. It deals with the problems of practical life. It shows the boy 
how to choose upward, how to find his right place and how to keep 
it. It is packed with sensible, practical counsels. 

Some of the most notable chapters are: “The Country Boy’s Op¬ 
portunities.” “Avoid Misfit Occupations,” “Getting a Situation,” “Try¬ 
ing Something ‘for a While.’ ” “When It Is Right to Change.” “Pro¬ 
motion from Exceptional Work,” “Shall I Go. into Business?” 


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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by G. H. 

Lorimer. Small. 

Expressed in the language of the stock-yards, the letters are full of 
humor as well as of sound and homely advice, the gist of which is to 
live clean and sell hogs at profit.” 


The Boy Craftsman, by A. Neely Hall. Lothrop. 

This practical volume was written “with a view of helping boys with 
their problems of earning money as well as furnishing recreative and 
entertaining work, and to this end the first portion has been devoted to 
suggestions for the carrying on of a number of small business enter¬ 
prises, and the second and third parts to outdoor and indoor pastimes 
for all seasons of the year.” The volume is valuable in suggesting 
ways of earning money as well as entertaining. Nearly every boy 
feels the need of such suggestions to aid him in raising the funds 
necessary to carry on his work. 

How to Get and Keep a Job, by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr, 

Moffat. 

“This book is meant to be practical,” says the author. It will, there¬ 
fore, be useful to many readers, since its topics are essentially im¬ 
portant to most people. It is a sensible book based on the experience 
not only of the author but of his extensive business acquaintance as 
well. Mr. Fowler is qualified by a wide and active business life for 
the writing of this book. His activity in all branches of publicity 
work, but especially in the origination and development of advertising 
and selling plans for American business houses, is well known. He is 
the originator of (among many others) the almost uniquely success¬ 
ful advertisement, “The Prudential has the strength of Gibraltar.” In 
Boston he conducted for the Y. M. C. Union, the first course of 
amplified demonstration of actual business doings and salesmanship 
ever inaugurated. In short, for a quarter of a century he has engaged 
in and studied business zealously, and has moreover published a num¬ 
ber of books in which he has reduced his copious observations to the 
form of conclusions for the benefit of less experienced men of busi¬ 
ness. 

Bright Ideas for Money-Making. Jacobs. 

This is a collection of two hundred practical ideas for women for 
the making of money, most of which may be carried out at home, with 
a chapter devoted to suggestions for boys and girls. Some of the sug¬ 
gestions for women would also be practicable for older young people.- 


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LIFE PROBLEMS 

PERSONAL PROBLEMS 

Boys, Girls and Manners, by Florence Howe Hall. Estes. 

This little volume was prepared in the hope and belief that it may 
prove both useful and interesting to boys and girls, as well as to those 
in charge of their social education. The rules are given not as dry 
and dusty skeletons but as living organisms, clothed in the tissue of 
anecdote and illustration. 

The Call of the Twentieth Century, by David Starr Jordan. 

Am. Unitarian. 

Though a simple book and evidently written originally as a lecture, 
nothing finer and more inspiring is available within equal compass, as 
a stimulus to young people who are preparing themselves for the 
places which are to be open to them in our present century. Though 
not giving a detailed discussion, the author takes up in succession the 
various possible vocations, but the strength of the book is its virile 
appeal to genuine manhood. No better book could be placed in the 
hands of a high school boy by his father than this. ■ 

A Girl's Student Days and After, by Jeannette Marks. 

Rev ell. 

“The wisdom which comes from experience of life and the skill 
which a cultured person acquires from literary work” enters into this 
delightful book, written by a college woman who understands the 
everyday situations in which the young college girl finds herself, and 
so can give to such topics as “The Ideal Freshman,” “Friendships,” 
“The Student’s Room,” “The Right Sort of Leisure,” “Fair Play,” 
etc., the breezy wholesomeness of sensible advice and true inspiration. 

Girls and Education, by L. B. R. Briggs. Houghton. 

This little book contains some very helpful suggestions for “the girl 
who would cultivate herself,” showing how the reading of good books 
may serve as a large means of self-culture, for the “girl at gradua¬ 
tion”; touching upon the large values and meanings which life may 
hold for her, and for the “college girl,” telling of the sane view and 
large perspective which is the heritage of every true college woman. 

Farm Boys and Girls, by William A. McKeever. Macmillan. 

Though written for parents, this book is one of the very finest 
to be read by older boys and girls upon a farm. It discusses the 
building of a good life and shows what factors have their place in 
turn. It points out the possibilities of the country home, of the coun- 


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try church, of the country school and of the county Y. M. C. A. Dr. 
McKeever talks about how much work a farm boy or girl ought to 
do, the social training required by both, the farm boy’s interest in 
the business, the business training for the country girl, what schooling 
each should have. There are two very valuable chapters, one upon the 
farm boy’s choice of a vocation and the other upon the farm girl’s 
preparation for a vocation. 

Are You Going to College? by William C. Schmeisser. 

E. H. Curlander. 

The reviewer of this book has become hardened to books of advice 
for boys, but this seems to be an unusual one. The author is a col¬ 
lege graduate and an athlete and a successful man, not a minister, 
whose experiences are recent enough to be still fresh in his mind. 
The book answers a great many questions that a boy’s father cannot 
answer because his information is out of date. The writer lays a 
great deal of emphasis upon athletics, but his attitude towards the 
subject is wise and helpful. He deals with such practical subjects as 
how a freshman ought to behave. 

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell 
Holmes. Crozvell. 

Full of alert wisdom, droll humor, and shrewd observation of life. 
The scraps of poetry are among his finest verse. 

The Three Gifts of Life, by Nellie M. Smith. Dodd. 

Modern ideas advise serious instruction of young girls in sex hy¬ 
giene and this book was published as a treatise upon a “Girl’s Re¬ 
sponsibility upon Race Progress,” the “Three Gifts” being the three 
attributes given to the different forms of life by means of which they 
are enabled to progress. The contents, with an introduction by 
Thomas Denison Wood, A.M., M.D., is divided into four chapters, 
including Plant Life, Animal Life, Human Life and the Gift of 
Choice. 

Reproduction and Sex Hygiene, by Winfield S. Hall, M.D. 

Ray. 

This is a strong, sensible presentation of this vital subject, which 
is written “with the intelligence of a trained and experienced phy¬ 
sician, with the thoroughness and frankness of an expert teacher and 
with the delicacy and motive of a Christian gentleman.” 

Ideals for Girls, by Mrs. Frank Learned. Stokes. 

This book is a series of talks to girls on the ideals of life. The 
subjects are well chosen and hold a wide range of interest which, with 
the qualities of helpfulness, high integrity and sweet womanliness that 
they inculcate, make the book of value in the development and 
strengthening of character. 


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Life Questions of High School Boys, by Jeremiah W. Jenks. 

Y. M. C. A. 

This is the best textbook for a short discussion course for high 
school boys. Most of it has also been used successfully by girls. It 
takes up the practical moral problems which occur in everyday life 
among young people, whether in school or not, who are over four¬ 
teen years of age. Such matters as gambling, social amusements, the 
use of money and time, each are outlined by brief discussion and 
crisp question. There are blank pages for note-taking. This book 
would be very useful in a club of serious-minded young people or in 
a Sunday school class. 

What Can Literature Do for Me? by C. Alphonso Smith. 

Doubleday. 

Here is a fresh approach to literature. Other writers have written 
books of literary biography and criticism for high school pupils, but 
Professor Smith, of the University of Virginia, takes up the practical 
question which every alert boy and girl asks, what is it good for? 
He shows how books reproduce the past, how they make us under¬ 
stand the present, how they reveal to us beauty of common things, 
how they interpret and express for us our ideals. He brings together 
in a very ingenious way great passages from literature which illus¬ 
trate each one of these points. There is no better book than this to 
help young people want to read what is worth while. 

CITIZENSHIP 

‘‘The land we live in seems to be strong and active. But how fares 
the land that lives in us? Are we sure that we are doing all we ought 
to keep it in vigor and health ? Are we keeping its roots well sur¬ 
rounded by the fertile soil of loving allegiance, and are we furnishing 
them the invigorating moisture of unselfish fidelity? Are we as dili¬ 
gent as we ought to be to protect this precious growth against the 
poison that must arise from the decay of harmony, and honesty, and 
industry, and frugality; and are we sufficiently watchful against the 
deadly burrowing pests of consuming greed and cankerous cupidity? 
Our answers to these questions made up the account of our steward¬ 
ship as keepers of a sacred trust .”-—Grover Cleveland. 

The American Government, by Frederic J. Haskin. Lippincott. 

A book has at last been published that does answer the questions 
of the American who wants to know how the great machinery of his 
national government is operated. The title of the book is “The 
American Government.” Its author is Frederic J. Haskin. Mr. 
Haskin is a newspaper man of years of experience. He is the head 
of a large bureau at Washington that serves the news of the capital 
to newspapers in many parts of the country. His work has brought 
him into contact with nearly every bureau of every department of this 
government. He knows from personal observation how the govern- 
mentabmachine operates. He has told this in simple, straightforward 
language. 


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The Land We Live In—The Boys' Book of Conservation, 

by Overton W. Price, with a Foreword by Gifford Pinchot. 

Small . 

This book gives a comprehensive and interesting view of our great 
country and its natural resources. Mr. Price shows in a graphic way, 
by means of imaginary journeys taken to the different parts of our 
country, the great waste of our natural wealth which has resulted 
from our wanton neglect and shortsightedness as a nation. By means 
of comparison with the careful preservation of forests, etc., in foreign 
countries, he gives a potent object lesson, and with great justice he 
shows the way in which our government is conserving its great re¬ 
sources for the future use of its citizens, in the Nation’s oversight 
of our great forests and farming areas. The author gives some very 
practical suggestions, as to a boy’s personal responsibility in the matter 
of conservation. 


SOCIAL SERVICE 

“We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as 
Seed may go to the next generation as Blossom, and that what came 
to us as Blossom may go to them as Fruit. That is what we mean by 
Progress .—Henry Ward Beecher. 

The Good Neighbor in the Modern City, by Mary E. Rich¬ 
mond. Lippincott. 

An excellent little book showing young people how social needs are 
best met by personal, thoughtful, skilled contact. The book shows 
how each one of us can be a good neighbor among the poor in the 
same way as the Good Samaritan was by coming where they are and 
taking care of them. 

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, by Jane Addams. 

Macmillan. 

Miss Addams, who has lived and worked among the poor for many 
years, gives us an interpretation of the longings and temptations of 
young people in the great city. She shows us how these longings 
ought to be met and how these temptations may be overcome. Though 
the book states many hard problems, it faces them with a buoyant 
helpfulness and leaves us with a feeling that we ought to be up and 
doing something for those who need our help, not because they are 
less good, but because they are less fortunate than ourselves. 

Euthenics, by Ellen H. Richards. Whitcomb. 

A most interesting book dealing with our city to make better condi¬ 
tions for the human race. Euthenics Mrs. Richards defines as 
“hygiene for the present generation.” One would hardly suppose that 
she could make sanitation and legislation as interesting as she does. 


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She shows how most sickness among children and most failures 
among men and women is caused by the neglect of conditions for 
which all of us are to blame and which, all together, we can remedy. 
One of the most attractive features of the book is the inspiring quota¬ 
tions with which each chapter begins. One of the best of them is 
this, and it is really the keynote of the book: “Democracy means that 
the best of all life is for all, and that, if there are many who are in¬ 
capable of entering into it, then they must be helped to become 
capable ” 

The Spirit of America, by Henry van Dyke. Macmillan. 

This is not a great book, but it is a very interesting one. Dr. van 
Dyke was trying to tell some educated Frenchmen what America is 
like. He took it for granted that they did not know very much about 
the soul of our people. One who reads this book should put himself 
in the attitude of a foreigner who is trying to understand America. 
If we do not feel that we know much about our own country, we 
shall find it most inspiring to read what he says about the self-reliance, 
the fair play, the will power and the social co-operation of the Ameri¬ 
can people. 


Part Two 


A List of Playthings and Games for Children and 
Young People 



A LIST OF PLAYTHINGS AND GAMES 


It is believed that this is the first graded and annotated list 
of toys and home occupations that has ever been gathered. There 
is a growing recognition among parents and educators that the 
play of children is an important part of their education. Many 
parents, feeling that much that is exhibited in the toy shops is 
valueless, or worse, do not wish to depend upon the ignorance 
or the prejudice of clerks or careless imitation of the purchases 
of their neighbors. There is, therefore, an active demand for 
a list like this, and it is believed that it will be useful. 

This compilation has been made with care and with complete 
impartiality. Nevertheless it is possible that some articles of 
great value have been entirely overlooked. The purpose is to 
revise the list frequently. 

Those who refer to this guide should know the principles 
which have governed the selection of the toys herewith reviewed. 
There is, first, the frank recognition that home-made toys, espe¬ 
cially those devised and constructed by the child himself, are 
worth infinitely more than those bought at the store. The home¬ 
made things therefore have been mentioned first. It is hoped 
that they will be made use of. But they cannot occupy much 
space. There is not so much to be said about a pile of blocks 
from the saw mill as about some novel games from the shop, 
because every one knows just what the former is like. Be not 
deceived then by these attractive descriptions. They often rep¬ 
resent only money’s substitute for ingenuity. 

Particular stress has been laid upon toys that require activity, 
in the way of construction, manipulation or completion, from 
the child. Some one has classed toys as “Do-Nothings,” “Look- 
Ons” and “Do-Withs.” Especial consideration has been given 
to toys with which children can do something, because probably 
two-thirds of the destruction of toys is the direct result of their 
lack of constructive quality, so that when a child can get nothing 
else out of a toy he takes it to pieces. The compilers have 
avoided the elaborate mechanical dolls, such as talking dolls, com¬ 
plete electric railways, and other contrivances, which, wound up, 
do it all themselves. “I hate toys which play with me,” com¬ 
plained one much-indulged youngster. 

The main purpose, of course, has been to point out the toys 


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that are delightful. The educational ideal has not been allowed 
to crowd out the thought of play. “The pigs are of the gruntiest, 
and the sheep of the meekest/’ and all the rest say, “Come play 
with me” so hard that it will often be hard to restrain the adults 
of the family from monopolizing them. 

The compilers have tried to get strong, well-made toys, be¬ 
lieving that flimsy ones discourage care-taking and lead to ex¬ 
travagance. 

Very usual toys, such as hoops, jump ropes, carts, rubber 
animals, toy dishes, etc., have been omitted, because it did not 
seem worth while to give space to any special review. 

We have excluded as non-educational toys which, in their 
supposed capability to come down to the age of the child, fail to 
teach him the correct manipulation. We have not, as yet, for 
instance, found any typewriter which teaches typewriting as used 
on a regulation machine. Instead, each has some machine move¬ 
ment, which would require the child practicing on it to unlearn 
all that it taught him when he came to put it to practical use 
with the regulation machine. Therefore, we recommend for 
children some of the cheaper grades of regulation typewriters. 

Our classification into periods is not a hard and fast one, but 
the gradation is more or less on a sliding scale, according to the 
development of the individual child, which often overlaps on 
either side of our age boundary. 


TOY MAKERS AND TOY DEALERS 

Here are the full names and addresses of the firms referred 
to by abbreviations below : 

American Manufacturing Company, Falconer, N. Y. 

Baker & Bennett Co., New York. 

Best & Company, Fifth Ave. and Thirty-fifth St., New York 
City. 

Miss Frances Bonsall, 2649 Myrtlewood St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Milton Bradley Co., 1209 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., and 
Springfield, Mass. 

The Butterfly Store, 816 Broadway, New York City. 

Child’s Welfare Company, 1864 Insurance Exchange Bldg., 
Chicago, Ill. 

Dennison Manufacturing Company, 26 Franklin St., Boston, 
Mass. 

Foyer Bros. & Company, Toledo, O. 


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Gardencraft Toy Company, 1 Milligan Place, New York City. 
Gimbel Bros., New York and Philadelphia. 

H-K Toy and Novelty Co., Indianapolis. 

J. L. Hammett Co., 250 Devonshire St., Boston. 
Hampton-Scott Co., 62-68 Prescott St., Columbus, O. 
Hill-Standard Mfg. Co., Anderson, Ind. 

E. J. Horsman & Co., 365 Broadway, New York. 

Howell’s Microcosm, 612 17th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 
Irving Novelty Mfg. Co., South Norwalk, Conn. 

George W. Jacobs & Company, Philadelphia. 

The Kindermart, Baltimore, Md. 

John Latta, Box 10, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

Johnson Educator Food Co., Boston, Mass. 

McLoughlin Bros., 890 Broadway, New York City. 

Mysto Manufacturing Co., New York City. 

Pamos Art Company, New York City. 

Parker Brothers, Salem, Mass. 

Picture Paster Publicity Co., 345 5th Ave., New York. 

Percy Pierce, 6106 Catharine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Reilly & Britton Co., 1006 Michigan Ave., Chicago. 

F. Ad. Richter & Co., 74-80 Washington St., New York City. 
Favor, Ruhl & Co., 73 Barclay St. and 72 Park Place, New 

York City. 

G. A. Schwarz, 1006 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

R. H. Smith Mfg. Co., Springfield, Mass. 

Fredk. A. Stokes Co., 443 4th Ave., New York City. 

The Toy Tinkers, Evanston, Ill. 

Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., 122-124 5th Ave., New York City. 
Underwood & Underwood, 12-14 W. 37th St., New York City. 
United Art Publishing Co., 119 4th Ave., New York. 

John Wanamaker, New York and Philadelphia. 

H. C. White Co., No. Bennington, Vt. 


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FOR LITTLE CHILDREN 

PERIOD ONE (AGES 0-3) 

Toys of special interest to this period include common objects, 
such as smooth stones, sticks, spools, keys, spoons, tin dishes; 
bright objects suspended to attract sight; objects suspended above 
the cradle to induce reaching; a bell or some other bright object 
sewed to the stocking to induce pulling; paper suspended above 
the feet to induce kicking; soft, hard, smooth, rough, light, heavy, 
warm, cold objects; a celluloid ball, a large rag doll, that can be 
kicked and rolled about; rubber animals, boxes, nest of boxes, 
bottles, blocks (not necessarily lettered, but pictured), etc.; har¬ 
monica, trumpet, whistle, bell, flag, rocking-horses, seat-swing, 
dolls, cart, doll carriage, toy furniture, linen picture books, paper 
and crayon; slide—a smooth board, waxed and rubbed, having 
one end placed on a chair or box, on to which the child may 
climb and slide down the board; outdoor sand pile (only when 
watched, so as not to swallow sharp glass and stone) ; iron spoon, 
shovel, tin cans, pail, sand forms, cart, indoor sand box. 


BALLS 

A little celluloid head, with ball-shaped body, covered with dainty 
flowered silk. The ball is on an elastic string attached to a small ivory 
ring, so that baby may bounce it up and down. A cleanly and amusing 
toy. Price, 50 cents.— Kindermart. 

A return ball, made of red, white and blue kid; soft rubber balls, 
made to look like oranges and apples. Prices, 10 and 12 cents each. 


DOLLS 

Kewpie Dolls, 

These new little dolls of Rose Cecil O’Neill’s, which, have been 
children’s friends as cut-outs, are now manufactured in bisque, cellu¬ 
loid and rubber. Their mischievous expression makes them very 
companionable for little people. They range in price according to 
size, from 50 cents to $1.50.— Giwbel, 


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A REALLY TRULY RAG DOLL 

A Really Truly Rag Doll. 

A doll that looks like a child and not like a pancake. It was both 
moulded and painted from a live three-months-old baby, and it might 
almost be its twin. There is one difference—it is safer to sit down on. 
Price, all made, $1.25 each .—American Institute. 

PICTURE BOOKS 

“We know,” says Freeland, “that the child’s favorite colors are 
l violet and blue. We also know that children do not like grays and 
browns. They cannot, until the sixth year, tell whether a face is 
pretty or not, and do not even recognize when the arms are left off a 
picture. Special features, then, of the picture books would be to 
have everything very large and plain at this stage. No pictures of 
complex activities can be understood at all. The pictures should be 
mostly of individuals, and should illustrate stories, and could be used 
in connection with toy animals, to illustrate stories. Thus, the story 
of the three bears becomes far more potent with a set of pictures of 
each bear. Little Red Riding Hood, likewise. Doctor Fernald, of 
Waverly Institute, uses three toy bears—a little bear, a middle-sized 
bear and a big bear.” 


PERIOD TWO (AGES 4-6) 

Toys of special interest include the following: Outdoor sand 
pile, shovels, sand forms, tin cans, blocks, stones, and other mis¬ 
cellaneous materials, as boards, boxes, sticks, spools, dowels, 
twigs, etc., carts, reins, whip, climbing tree or ladder, slide (such 
as a smooth, waxed board, with climbing mount), single-pole 
swing, see-saw, parallel rails (2 by 4 joists, mounted a few inches 
from the ground, for balanced walking and running), elevated 
rail or fence, jumping hole, filled with sawdust, straw, or other 
soft) material; doll house, improvised by children out of dry- 
goods box, or made by older children or carpenter, dolls, doll 
carriage, go-carts, toy furniture, strong and durable as possible; 
chairs, tables, bed, hammocks, bureaus, wash-stands, tooth 
brushes, tubs, rub-boards, flat-irons, brooms, stove, kitchen dishes, 
tea sets, etc.; toy animals, toy circus, harmonica, trumpet, drum, 
flag, toy sword, balls, bean bags, wind-mills, engine, train of 


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cars, wheelbarrow, rake, hoe, watering pot, indoor sand box, 
building blocks, scissors, paste, sewing cards and sewing material, 
beads, clay for modeling, pencils and paper, crayons or paint, toy 
books, pictures and picture books. 

This is the natural age for acquiring independence in dressing 
and care of themselves in a sanitary fashion, and all of this can 
be learned in their play. Children, if brought up naturally, cry 
to be allowed to wait on themselves, dress themselves, etc., at 
about the age of three or four years. Some of the Montessori 
toys and a set of doll dresses and clothes, embodying many of 
the activities, such as hooking, lacing, buttoning, etc., are useful 
to this end. 


DOLLS 

In addition to regular wax or bisque dolls, the following are inter¬ 
esting because they are practically unbreakable, and may be made to 
take lifelike positions. 

Among unbreakable art dolls are the schoolboy, dressed in blouse 
and trousers; the Campbell Kids, whose round eyes are famous 
everywhere, and the sun-bonnet girl, a winsome little lass ready for 
a run on the lawn. These may be had for about a dollar each. 

Among the rag dolls is Red Riding Hood, all arrayed in her red 
cape and hood ready for her famous visit to her grandmother. Price, 
50 cents to $1.00. 

The “Schoenhut Doll” is of wood and unbreakable, full-jointed, with 
the heads artistically modeled. As no rubber cord is used, they never 
require restringing, and they may be washed. They vary in price 
according to size—about $2.00 to $3.00. Suits to fit these little dolls 
are $1.25 to $1.75. 

Then there is the Chase Stockinette Doll, which is a very durable 
hand-painted doll. This doll ranges in price from $2.50 to $6.25. 

The Celluloid Doll has moving arms and legs, painted shoes and 
stockings, and is the best bathing and floating doll. It ranges in price, 
according to size, from 10 cents to $3.00. 

Kruse Hand-Made Baby Dolls. 

These dolls are unbreakable and washable. The modeling of the 
faces is particularly good, and the positions which the dolls are 
capable of taking make them lovable little playthings. Those manu¬ 
factured in Germany, 18 inches high, are $10 undressed; those in. 
America are $6.50 each .—GimfyeU 


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Doll Furniture for Children to Make. 

Small, light wooden pieces ready to be set up. Easily completed 
by the child and will be doubly valued by him because he has helped 
to make it. Set B contains two chairs, table and high clock. Set C 
consists of bed, a straight chair, rocker and small table. Price, Set 
B, 25 cents; Set C, 30 cents.— Child Welfare. 

Pastime Occupations. 

Several sets of busy work neatly packed in boxes. The paper 
sewing and color scheme consist of some simple sewing cards, hand 
colored. With these are furnished five different tints of yarn, with 
needle and bodkin. “The World’s Workers” is a set of uncolored 
cards intended to be colored with crayons. Price, 25 cents each.— 
Child Welfare. 


ANIMALS 

Finger Dogs. 

With the head of a puppy and a hollow, furry body, which may be 
slipped over the hand and made to take different amusing positions. 
Price, 50 cents up.— Schwarz. 

Magnetic Floating Animals. 

Little tin ducks and fishes that swim around in a basin after a 
magnetic rod in one’s hand. Allied to this in pleasure-giving power is 
the turtle, on an invisible support, in a glass-topped box, forever 
bound for nowhere. 

Funland. 

In this book are heads of different animals, and parts have been 
cut out of heavy board leaves and circular pieces that are enclosed 
in an envelope. These are of proper size and bevel to fit snugly into 
any of the outlines on the leaves. The game is instructive, teaching 
children to find the correct heads for different animals through ob¬ 
servation. Price, $1.15.— Ideal Bookbuilder. 

Composition Animal Sets. 

Durable and lifelike. Price, 50 cents to $3.75.— Best. 

Educator Ark. 

A tin ark, painted upon the outside only, and lithographed with 
bright colors, containing a pound of the celebrated educator crackers 
made in the form of the animals of the ark. These crackers are 
wholesomely made of the principal cereals. The toy would be an 
excellent method for stimulating appetite in the child who needs but 
does not desire simple and nourishing food. It goes without saying 
that the animals should not be played with upon the floor before they 
are eaten, 50c.— Educator Cracker Co. 


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Father Tuck's Rocking Animals. 

Colored models of animals. Cut out in stiff cardboard. Embossed. 
The back portion forming a strut and effecting a rocking movement. 
On the back is a very interesting description of the animals. Packed 
ten in box; also packed five in box. Series 1 and 2. Price, 50 cents 
a box.— Tuck. 

Father Tuck's Walking Animals. 

Realistic figures of animals of stiff cardboard, embossed.. (Size 
7%x 10.) Six animals in box. Each animal provided with string, and 
so arranged that the animal imitates a life-like movement when pulled 
along. 

Series 1—Domestic animals. 

Series 2—Wild animals. 

Price, 25 cents per box, 6 designs to each.— Tuck. 

The Beard Animals. 

Twelve colored cards, with outline pictures of familiar wild animals, 
in book form. The colors are to be filled in with crayon. The ani¬ 
mals are then to be cut out, put together and set on four feet. Their 
haunts, habits and food are described. All of them are life size, with 
adjustable legs. Also the Beard Birds. Either set $1.00.— Stokes. 

Father Tuck's Animals and Their Riders. 

A novelty which will prove a source of never-ending delight to the 
little ones. Ten animals and ten riders. Any animal can be ridden 
by any figure, and they can be placed in endless varieties of lifelike 
attitudes, thus forming 100 distinct changes. Box containing ten 
colored movable riders—also packed five animals and five riders in a 
box. Series 1 and 2. Price, 50 cents a box— Tuck. 


Rope Climbers. 

Rope climbers; six figures in box. Painted in brilliant colors and 
embossed on extra stout board. . (Size 9^ inches long.) 

These pictures have jointed limbs and are on cords, the ends of 
which being pulled, they actively climb from the bottom to the top 
in a wonderfully natural and lifelike way. 

Series 1.—Jolly Jack Tar, Clown, Black Sambo, Little Billie, Teddy 
Bear, Monkey. 

Series 2.—Pretty Polly, Highland Laddies, Mr. Punch, Our Pussie, 
Beware of the Dog. Price, 50 cents per box—Tuck. 


WOODEN TOYS 

Woodpecker. 

A Russian toy which represents the red-headed woodpecker tapping 
a tree for insects. Much used in “Christmas gardens, and interesting 
as a simple toy for children. Price, 50 cents —Kindermart. 


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Russian Scissor Toy. 

This is one of the German scissor toys made of wood, with a little 
girl feeding a flock of chickens, and by working it as you would a 
pair of scissors a variety of effects may be gained which always in¬ 
terest the children. Price, 50 cents.— Kindermart. 

BLOCKS 

Wooden blocks, in the shape of bricks, 6 inches long, are excellent 
to use in building. They can be sawed out of two-by-fours. 

Hennessey Building Blocks. 

A set of one hundred large blocks, cubes, square and triangular 
prisms, cylinders and parallelopipeds packed in a substantial chest. 
These seem to be the largest blocks which are furnished by the deal¬ 
ers. Some of them are six inches long. Price, $8.00.— Bradley. 

Voice Blocks. 

Voice blocks imitate the voice of six different animals. Price, $1.00 
and $2.00— Schwarz. 

Birdie Blocks. 

The Birdie Blocks are inches square and Y inch in thickness. 
They have grooves cut in the edges, at the corners, and are joined 
by means of ornamental wood discs or buttons, which fit into the 
grooves. The two flat sides of the blocks are covered with attractive 
lithographs. A group of five letters, in scroll, arranged to form small 
words, upon one side, and a cut of one of the more common native 
birds upon the other. The cuts of the birds are true to life and are 
instructive to children as well as helpful to grown persons in becom¬ 
ing better acquainted with this happy family.— Bonsall. 

The Little Mind Builder Block Letters. 

Consists of a font of block letters four inches high, made of nice, 
clean wood, firmly set together, and also of a complete set of num¬ 
bers, without paint or varnish. There is a sufficient number of each 
character to construct long sentences. By means of these block let¬ 
ters the child learns the alphabet and figures and to build and con¬ 
struct sentences. This plaything would be delightful as a sand toy and 
for tracing letters for signs, etc. Price, $2.50. A smaller set, consist¬ 
ing of but one complete alphabet and one set of numbers, $1.25.— 
Baker & Bennett Co. 

Wooden Construction Blocks. 

Various lengths, wooden strips, etc., carefully slotted at each end, 
with a number of flat wooden spools or disks, which serve to hold the 
various members in position something after the manner of an ordi¬ 
nary clothespin. All kinds of simple constructions may be imitated' 
by these pieces.— H-K Toy and Novelty. 


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Peg-Lock Block. 

Several sets of wooden blocks, provided with pegs and holes, so 
that the pieces fasten together and make substantial houses, boats, 
chairs, miniature derricks, etc. The standard set, No. 1, selling at 
$3.50, contains 120 separate pieces. There are several auxiliary sets. 
Small children will not make the elaborate patterns, but those old 
enough to be ingenious and to handle their fingers well will get much 
enjoyment from them. It is an excellent toy for fathers to play with. 
$2.00 to $6.00 a set.— Horsmann. 


TOPS 

Wooden Top. 

This top is in the form of a little Russian peasant with moving 
arms. It is a diverting little toy, to he spun by hand, made of wood 
and imported from Russia. Price, 25 cents.— Kindcrmart. 

Flying Top. 

This top is something of a novelty, as when wound up it springs 
into the air while continuing to spin.— Schwarz. 

Balancing Toys. 

Curious little toys which are so weighted that by standing them on 
their hind feet they balance perfectly and are very diverting for small 
children. Price, 25 cents.— Kindermart. 

Patent Disk Tops. 

To children who are not large enough to spin tops by the unwind¬ 
ing method, these will be attractive. A long metal handle works by 
a spiral into the center of the top and thus sets it into rapid motion. 
By this means tops may be spun either upon the floor or in the air. 
This is a German toy. Price, 75 cents —Kindermart. 

HANDWORK 

Any father can make an outdoor sand box or get a sand pile. 


Child's Welfare Sand Box. 

An indestructible, sanitary sand box with sand and tools, 20 by 24 
inches and 10 inches high. Equally useful on the porch, outdoors or 
in the playroom or nursery. It is compact, and the plastic materials 
of the Child’s Welfare Table unfold the child’s productive and con¬ 
structive tendencies in connection with the most interesting activity 
namely, play. Price, $4.75.— Child Welfare and Hammett. 


Welfare Loom. 

A real working loom made of enameled steel construction, with 
treadles, etc., like a real industrial article. It is 10x8x6 inches. It 
is furnished with wool and a # sample of work and weaves small 
Q?irpets aqd rugs perfectly. Price, $2.50.— Child Welfare , 


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Child's Welfare Table. 

A sanitary, indestructible play table, which serves as a tea or game 
table, a blackboard, a little artist’s outfit. In fact, everything the child 
needs for home occupation, and everything in its place. These come 
in three sizes and prices are $5.50, $10.00 and $15.00.— Child Welfare. 

Child's Welfare Paint Box. 

Steel enameled box with hinged lid, contains nine pans best paints, 
two good quality brushes, two china mixing plates, one lacquered 
wash-pan, eighteen sheets water color paper. Price, $1.50.— Child 
Welfare. 

Sand Toys. 

One of the best educational sand modelers is a box of letters and 
figures made of wood, each about four inches square. By their use 
little folks find it very interesting to write their names and various 
numbers on the sand. Price, $2.00 per set.— Best. 

Hammett's Combined Kindergarten Outfit. 

This is a box inches by 15 inches, containing weaving, sewing 
cards, worsted, colored papers, cutting and folding lengths, weaving 
mats with wooden splints for children to weave. Price, 50 cents.— 
Hammett. 

Bradley's Home Kindergarten Outfit. 

A large pasteboard box containing a variety of materials used in 
kindergarten, selected for the use of mothers in the home. Here are 
strings of Hailmann’s beads, packages of sticks and splints, a bag of 
cork beads, another of wooden blocks of various shapes for par¬ 
quetry work, sheets for mat weaving and pricked sewing cards 
with yarn for embroidery. Accompanying is a leaflet containing 
directions for their use. Price, $1.00.— Bradley. 

Mosaic. 

A set of wooden blocks in squares and triangles, capped with 
various colors. A set of patterns is enclosed, by means of which the 
child can put the pieces together to resemble tiles. Because of their 
thickness they are much better adapted to the small child than the 
parquetry work done with papers in the kindergarten. Price, 75 cents. 
— Kindermart. 

Bubble Blower. 

The Double Bubble Blower is great fun for the children. Price, 15 
cents.— Schwarz. 

Stampkraft. 

An attractive little bound book of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, 
with a space beside each story or verse for a paster picture. The 
pictures for each book are packed in a little envelope pasted inside the 
cover. The child is to find out where each picture belongs. Price 
10c.— United Art Publishing Co. 


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Marble Railway. 

Marble Railway. Price, 50 cents and $1.00. Tower Marble Game. 
Price, 50 cents and $1.50.— Schwarz. 

Folding Tables. 

In hardwood, 75 cents and $1.00. Mission style, $1.15. Folding 
table and four chairs, per set, $3.50.— Schwarz. 

Noah's Arks. 

Noah’s Arks are cardboard arks which the children can construct 
and equip with animals, which are included in the set. Price, accord¬ 
ing to size, from 50 cents to $2.00.— Best. 

Spear's Kindergarten Color Stencils. 

A box containing color sheets, patterns, stencils, a jar, a brush and 
some water colors. When the successive patterns are placed upon 
the colored sheet, the child simply has to draw his moist brush oyer 
the pattern in order to place the picture upon the sheet below. Price, 
50 cents.— Kindermart. 

Drawing Made Easy. 

These pictures are punched out so that children can trace with a 
pencil in the slits on paper placed underneath. The pictures include 
elephants, farmers, dogs, horses, clowns, monkeys, etc. There are 
six sets, 10 pictures in each set. Size 4^x6^£ inches. Price, 10 cents. 
McLoughlin. 

* Magic Dots. 

Magis Dots consist of a set of cards on which are printed interest¬ 
ing and attractive designs with holes punched through the card. With 
each set of material is furnished an ample supply of disks or dots 
called “Magic Dots,” which are of proper size to fit snugly into the 
holes in the cards, when placed therein by the fingers of the child, yet 
these “dots” can be readily removed when desired and used over and 
over again. They are enameled with eight bright colors, and when 
placed in the cards, make very pleasant and attractive pictures. 

There is no paint or paste to soil the hands or clothing, and yet the 
effect is equally as pleading as though the colors were applied with a 
brush. .... . , . 

Sets Nos. 3 and 4 are designed more particularly for use in kinder¬ 
gartens and lower grades in school, though they are, of course, in 
common with sets Nos. 1 and 2, of equal pleasure and interest to the 
child at home. Get the large size, as the small size is rather fine work 
for nervous little fingers. Price, 50 cents —Bradley. 

J Paper Cutting Designs. 

Forty-one large designs for paper cutting, representing birds, ani¬ 
mals and children. They are all five by eight inches, printed on 
card in black and white. Price, 25 cents. 


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Silhouette Sheets. 

Large sheets of paper telling the story of Peter Rabbit, the Pied 
Piper and other interesting childish tales in large black silhouette, 
which may be traced, cut out and mounted in various ways. The size 
of the picture facilitates the first lessons in scissor cutting. Price, 90 
cents.— Hammett. 

Little Object Teachers. 

It would be difficult to find a more interesting or effective device 
than this for teaching small children the names of various animals 
and objects, and how to spell them. The outfit consists of a wooden 
easel and frame with three grooves. In the top groove is inserted a 
picture and in the groove beneath letters are placed, one at a time, 
spelling the name of the subject illustrated. There are nearly three 
hundred letter cards, a fine series of lithographed picture cards, and 
a set of numerical figure cards, all put in a strong, partitioned box 
with lithographed label. Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 


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FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN 

PERIOD THREE (AGES 7-9) 

By the time a child is nine years old, Mr. Freeland found, 
from an extensive individual observation, that boys and girls 
actually engage, in considerable numbers, in the following play 
activities: 

At nine years—Boys: 

Boat making, making of toy wagons, making kites, doing 
chores about the home, taking machinery apart (clocks and 
watches come first, next guns, and next the fixing of their own 
toys, such as skates, etc.) ; making mechanical toys (such as 
stoves and furnaces, that will hold fire, and work with steam 
engines) ; making play houses; furniture making (along the line 
of flower stands, stools, tables, etc.) ; care of animals, dogs, 
chickens, pigs, cattle and horses. 

At nine years—Girls: 

Doll dresses, washing dishes (including both play dishes and 
the dishes of the family) ; sewing fancy garments, knitting, etc.; 
making play houses; making peculiar dresses (such as Indian 
dresses or special ones for the play house) ; weaving of doll 
cloth; making doll hats and doll furs; making doll furniture; 
making pillows, etc.; coloring pictures; reading stories; quite a 
few girls like to make bows and arrows at this age, also swords 
and other things that boys like; some seem drawn toward ma¬ 
chinery. 

The apparatus and toys that should be provided are such as 
a sand pile, see-saw, pole-swing, suspended iron rings, climbing 
rope, climbing tree, climbing ladder, tilting ladder, board slide, 
swinging rings, trolley slide, jumping pit (filled with sawdust, 
straw, or other soft material), stilts, garden carts, wheelbarrows, 
shovels, rakes, hoes, balls, bean bags, ringtoss, tenpins, bows and 
arrow, express carts, jump ropes, reins, whips, kites, playhouse, 
made by older boys; doll house, made by children or carpenter; 
boxes, boards and other miscellaneous material; aquarium, fish 
nets, insect nets, pets, drum, fife, flag, toy swords, wooden guns, 
improvised fire engine, hose cart, etc. 


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HANDWORK 

Welfare Zoo. 

Twelve cages, twelve animals to be woven into cages and twelve 
easels, on which pictures of animals and interesting description are 
printed. The animals are cut into strips and fitted together in cages. 
A fine puzzle game, as well as a lesson in pictorial weaving. Price, 
25c .—Child Welfare. 


Outlines for Coloring With Brush and Crayon 


Period. 


Children’s Painting Books each .25 

Colored Nursery Pictures, 11x13, 12 designs, for 
$1.75, or each 

Brookline Nature Series for coloring per 100 designs 
Pasting Books, 12 leaves, 7x9 per dozen 

Bird Outlines—50 sheets, 12 different birds, with 
color chart and directions 
Crayon Books, 6x8 inches, ruled ^-inch squares 


Bennett’s designs to color landscapes 
Bennett’s Landscape Designs, in bulk 
Overall Boys, designs to color 
Sunbonnet Babies 

Trufant’s Mottoes and Designs to Color, 
list. 

Bradley’s Mottoes and Designs to Color, 
list. 

Thanksgiving Packet 
Christmas Packet 
Studies in Landscape Design. 

Marshall Color Studies, Set No 
6x9, 


per set of 10 
per 100 
per set 
per set 
Send for special 

Send for special 


.25 

.50 

.75 

.75 

1.00 

.10 

.75 

.15 

.15 


.25 

.25 

.25 


Price, per set of 10 
flowers and vegetables, 

per set .35 
— Bradley. 


Birds for School and Home. 


A new and excellent handwork for the second and other grades. 
The construction of each bird provides for three distinct occupations 
—cutting, sewing and color work. When completed, the bird has a 
most lifelike appearance and the work stimulates observation of and 
love for our birds. 

Four sets: Spring Birds, Early Summer Birds, Summer Birds, 
Winter Birds. Price, each set, 25 cents.— Bradley. 


Spear’s Animal Color Stencils. 

A collection of small cardboard stencils of animals, with sheets 
of drawing paper, water colors, a brush and an attractive sample in 
colors of completed work. He lays the stencil on a sheet of paper, 
brushes over the holes with colors according to his taste. This must 
be very fascinating work, and it is good practice for the color work 
that is to come. Price, 50 cents.— Kindermart. 


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Father Tuck’s Picture Building. 

Father Tuck’s Picture Building Box contains three beautiful Colored 
Pictures to be taken to pieces and put together again. 

With every picture is given the story, or an entertaining description. 
On the back of each section of the picture is the name of the 
respective object, and the duplicate name is in the corresponding posi¬ 
tion in the hollowed-out back into which the picture is built. Thus 
the picture can be easily pieced together by the child alone, and the 
formation of the back ot the picture keeps the sections in place, so that 
it does not fall to pieces. Size of picture 8J4 by 10H* 

Containing:—“How the Animals Went In.” 

“Why the Animals Went In.” 

“How the Animals Came Out.” 

Price, 50 cents per box of Three Pictures. 

Father Tuck’s Picture Making for Little Folks. 

The box contains Four Sheets of Colored Objects and Four Pictures 
in Outline. The colored objects are to be cut out and affixed to their 
respective positions shown on the outline sheets, when a beautiful 
picture will be formed. Gum is upon the back of the colored sheet, 
and a brush is given in each box, so that only a little water is neces¬ 
sary for making the pictures. A short descriptive story is on the 
back of each outline sheet. 

Series I.—“The Punch and Judy Show.” “Going to School.” 

“The Three Friends.” “The Little Flower Seller.” 
Series II.—“Blind Man’s Buff ” “In Fancy Dress.” “Off to Town.” 
“The Swing.” 

Price, 25 cents per box of Four Pictures. 

Paper Cutting Set. 

This consists of a pair of safety, round-end scissors, an assortment 
of colored papers graded to form a harmonious color scheme and a 
number of interesting patterns for cutting out. Flat cardboard pat¬ 
terns are laid on the colored paper, face down, held firmly and. traced 
around with a hard pencil. Then they are to be cut out, following the 
lines so made. Price, 50 cents.. A larger outfit, including animals, 
birds, etc., and twelve outline pictures, is called “Pictures and How 
to Make Them,” $1.00 .—Kinder mart. 

Embeco Sentence Builder. 

A set of small slips of cardboard, some in script and some in print, 
containing a selection of words in large type for expressive sentence 
building. Children will enjoy composing sentences and picking out 
the words by which to build them. Price, per box, 15 cents.— Bradley. 

The Moving Picture Glue Book. 

A new idea. After the cutting and pasting is done as directed, the 
pages are transformed into pictures that move in an amusing fashion, 
by the opening and shutting of a folded leaf. Humorous verses ex¬ 
plain the pictures. Price, $1.00.— Stokes. 


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The Animal Rainy Day Scrap Book. 

Contains well-chosen half-tone pictures of the principal animals—a 
representative collection. Completed, the book will form a self-made 
nursery-museum.— Reilly. 

The Rainy Day Scrap Book. 

It is more than a scrap book, it is a game. There are 107 beautiful 
half-tone pictures to be cut out and pasted in their proper places. 
Cloth bound. Price, each, $1.00.— Reilly. 

Jolly Book of Boxcraft. 

Cardboard boxes are to be found everywhere. Most of them are 
thrown away. Miss Beard has discovered their wonderful possibili¬ 
ties. By following her directions any child who can handle a pair of 
scissors can make Boxville and all its buildings, from the little white 
cottage to the sumptuous hotel. Even the Box Brothers’ Animal Show 
is included. Price, $1.35.— Stokes. 

Pamos Pastime Maps. 

Maps of North America, South America and the United States. 
Twenty-four colors of enamel mosaics are supplied for the complet¬ 
ing of these maps. This work is very interesting to careful children, 
and the location of the various points of interest.is possible after the 
completion of the maps. 50 cents for the United States map; 25 
cents for those of North and South America.— Pamos. 

Bradley Toy Knitting Outfit. 

A simple outfit for doing old-fashioned spool knitting. The advan¬ 
tage is that the small hooks, which are fastened to this spool, are 
firmer and more satisfactory than the old-fashioned pins. A small 
amount of yarn is furnished with the outfit. Price, each, 5 cents; per 
dozen, 50 cents.— Bradley. 

Dorothy Dimple and Her Friends, and Paper Dolls of the 
World. 

Each of these packets contains six cut-outs, the former represent¬ 
ing a little American girl and her friends, with various costumes for 
each, and the latter, six children of as many different countries, with 
appropriate costumes for each country. The latter is especially 
delightful as an educational play for mothers who wish to teach their 
children about the people and costumes of other lands. Price, 25 
cents.— Jacobs. 

The Letty Lane Paper Families. 

Three Series.—The famous Letty Lane, who originally appeared 
in the Ladies’ Home Journal, and her friends, are here presented in 
three series of cut-outs, including six sheets to a series. The folder, 
when unfolded, makes the brick house in which Letty Lane and her 
friends live. Price, 50 cents.— Jacobs. 


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Dennison's Outfit for Young People. 

Doll Outfit No. 31. This is an outfit containing two dolls and all 
material necessary to make dresses, hats, etc. The forms are ready- 
cut, so that even little people can enjoy the dressmaking, while the older 
ones may, of course, elaborate with the material ready to cut. An 
enclosed circular gives illustrated directions for making the wardrobe. 
Contents: 

Two Paper Dolls, movable arms and legs. 

Small Rolls of Crepe Paper, assorted colors. 

Colored Tissue—Gold and Silver Paper. 

Gold and Silver Stars. 

Paper Lace. 

Strips of Decorated Paper. 

Dress and Hat Forms. 

Fashion sheet with dressmaking instructions. 

Price, per outfit, 35 cents.— Dennison. 

Embroidery Cards for First Lessons in Sewing. 

A set of cards pricked for pictures and for conventional designs, 
accompanied by a small quantity of colored threads. Price, per box, 
50 cents.— Bradley. 

Lilliput Desk. 

A charming miniature writing desk containing ink bottle, penholder, 
miniature paper and picture postcards, and having writing surface and 
place for keeping unanswered letters. Price, 50 cents.— Kindermart. 

The Story Book of Silhouettes. 

This book consists of white backgrounds with sheets of black fig¬ 
ures, to be cut out and pasted on the background in such a way that 
they will make completed pictures. The pictures illustrate stories, and 
full instructions for cutting and pasting are included. At the same 
price there are also over a dozen other volumes in the “Glue Series,” 
also “The Magic Book.” Price, $1.00, except the last, which is $1.25— 
Stokes. 

Mats and Fringes for Little Weavers. 

An attractive box of colored papers slit ready for weaving, accom¬ 
panied by patterns and furnished with two flat steel needles having 
spring attachment to hold the strips to be woven into the mat. Price, 
50 cents.— Bradley. 

Schutte Weaving Disks. 

A simple device for weaving mats, caps, etc.; excellent manual 
training for primary grades. The woof threads are attached to a 
pasteboard disk, and the warp woven in with a bodkin. Three sizes: 

Four-inch disk, per envelope, 12 disks, 15 cents. 

Six-inch disk, per envelope, 12 disks, 25 cents. 

Twelve-inch disk, per envelope, 12 disks, 40 cents—Bradley. 


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Scrap Pictures. 

Sheets of brightly lithographed figures of children and animals. 
They are used by the little ones for a variety of purposes, especially 
to mount and make scrap-books. They are also excellent and at¬ 
tractive ornaments for paper gifts. Price, 5 cents a sheet.— Tuck. 


IMITATIVE TOYS 

Bradley’s Toy Village. 

Bradley’s Toy Village consists of a number of folding houses made 
of cardboard, hinged with tough cambric. The roofs are separate 
from the walls of the houses and fit over cardboard projections, brac¬ 
ing the houses so they will stand square and firm when set up, and 
again, by simply removing the roofs, the houses are quickly folded 
up ready to be put back into the box. In addition to the houses, the 
sets are supplied with a sheet of lithographed objects to be cut out 
and stood up by means of small tin bases, which are supplied for the 
purpose. These objects include trees, boats, automobiles, figures of 
men, women and children, carriages, horses and other domestic ani¬ 
mals. Each set is also equipped with a ground plan, or lithographed 
sheet, showing streets, flower beds, lakes, etc., with spaces indicating 
where houses are to be placed, and encourages “city planning” in 
miniature. 

The houses are lithographed in bright and attractive colors, and all 
projections and connections are firmly glued to the side walls, insuring 
firmness and durability. Price, 15 cents to $1.00.— Bradley. 

Humpty-Dumpty Circus. 

Humpty-Dumpty Circus is one of the most amusing and instructive 
of toys. Tent and ring with a great variety of jointed wooden figures, 
such, as tight-rope performers, lion tamers, lions, tigers, giraffes, 
zebras, alligators, etc. Price, per set, 50 cents to $13.50.— Schwarz. 

Toy Clothes Line Outfit. 

Contains twenty feet of cotton rope of good quality, two galvanized 
pulleys and clothes pins, put up in lithographed cartons. Price, 10 
cents.— Bradley. 

Doll’s Kitchen Set. 

This set consists of wooden rolling pin, bowl, potato masher, pastry 
board and deep pudding dish. All pieces are nicely turned from 
good, clean stock. Price, 5 cents.— Bradley. 

Doll’s School. 

This box contains entire equipment for playing school, from the 
spectacles for the teacher to the blackboard for the children, programs 
for opening exercises, slates, sponges, drawing boards—everything for 
the education of dolls along the most approved lines. The outfit will 
give days of pleasure to the little children who wish to play this fasci¬ 
nating game. Price, 25 cents to $1.00.— Bradley. 


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The Marathon Skate. 

. A pushmobile built of high-grade seasoned lumber, finished in mis¬ 
sion, with the exception of the wheels, which are bright red, equipped 
with tubular steel bearings and stamped steel supports. Price, 85 
centsr— Hampton-Scott. 

The Skootamorang. 

A three-wheeled coaster, somewhat like a pushmobile, with a high 
seat, on_ which the boy can put one knee while pushing the vehicle 
along with his foot. The platform is so arranged that while one boy 
sits on the seat, another boy can push and jump on. This vehicle has 
a steel running gear frame, wheels of cast iron and a wooden seat 
painted red. Prices, $1.75 to $2.50 .—Foyer Bros. 

The Irish Mail (and Similar Hand Cars). 

A hand car with large rear wheels and small front wheels. There 
is an adjustable front axle, which makes the car suitable’ for any child 
from three to twelve years of age. The frame is made of select 
hardwood and the metal parts are of iron and steel. There is a steer¬ 
ing handle. Prices, $3.00 to $8.50.— Hill-Standard. 

Hurly Burly. 

A coasting car with seat, wheels and steering frame. The running 
gear frame and large wheels are made of steel, the small wheels of 
cast iron. There is a little trailer board on the back on which one boy 
may run and push. When not in use, the trailer can he pushed up 
at the back of the seat to form a back rest. Prices, $2.50 to $3.50.— 
Foyer Bros. 

Tinkertoy. 

Seventy-three small wooden spools and rods. By setting the rods 
in the holes of the spools, all kinds of moving and stationary figures 
may be made. This work is much easier and more elementary than 
the metal building toys that are mentioned for an older grade. Price, 
50 cents .—Toy Tinkers. 


SCIENTIFIC TOY'S 

Reflectograph. 

An upright glass reflects the drawing on one side so that it may be 
copied in pencil by the child on the other side. An interesting and 
rather novel occupation. Price, 25 cents to $1.00. 

Magnetic Fish Pond. 

The nearest approach to the real sport yet devised. The fish are 
in a deep well and are caught by means of magnetized hooks. You 
can’t see the fish, but you can “fed”' them “bite.” Price, 15 cents to 
$1.00.— Bradley. 


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BLOCKS 

Parquetry Blocks. 

These interesting tablets are made of wood and colored in the six 
colors. They are also of assorted forms, the diamond and half¬ 
square. With these simple forms, hundreds of elaborate and beauti¬ 
ful designs can be made. 

Box containing 150 blocks, 10 cents each. 

Box containing 400 blocks, 25 cents each.— Hammett. 

Auto-Pin Builder Block. 

Another ingenious addition to the valuable building toys. A set of 
wooden squares and oblongs which, connected by a simple metal 
dowel, will make a complete toy house.— H. C. White. 

Richter’s Anchor Blocks. 

These blocks are made of solid stone, and are so strong that no 
ordinary accidental fall will even knock a fine chip out of them. The 
surfaces are slightly roughened, and the blocks are shaped with such 
accuracy that when properly placed they get a sort of grip on each 
other so that buildings made of them stand firmly and are not easily 
overturned. Anchor Blocks are mathematically correct. 

With these blocks children learn through play. The architectural 
designs develop the artistic sense and are so constructed that they 
entertain young and old for hours at a time. Price according to size 
of outfit.— Richter. 

School Building Blocks. 

The wooden box is 15x8x324 inches in size, and contains 89 blocks, 
divided into whole blocks, half blocks, pillars, bricks, columns, cubes, 
domes and pinnacles. Those acquainted with educational matters 
will recognize from the above description that all of the usual forms 
are included in the assortment, Price, $1.00.— Bradley. 


GAMES 

Lotto. 

Lotto is one of the oldest games on the market, but still enjoys 
great popularity. This set consists of 24 numbered cards, attractively 
lithographed, a full set of glass markers and wooden counters. The 
counters are enclosed in a cloth bag, and the markers are put up in 
a small pasteboard box. Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 

Familiar Objects. 

An ingenious kind of Lotto, in which pictures are used instead of 
numbers, although small numbers appear beneath the pictures for 
verifying the pictures. The cards are lithographed in several bright 
colors, and the name of each article is printed in three languages on 
the back of each small square. The game has all the attractiveness of 
Lotto, with the large advantage of teaching the names of various fa¬ 
miliar articles. Price, 50 cents.— Kindermart. 


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Pretty Pets Lotto. 

Pretty Pets Lotto is an interesting and amusing game for the little 
folks, and at the same time it makes the much-dreaded multiplication 
table a thing of pleasure. The children are so taken up with the fun 
of the game that they learn to multiply before they are aware of it. 
Price, $1.00.— Bradley. 

Rook. 

This is a leading card game. With Rook Cards are played, besides 
the famous game of Rook, the new copyrighted games of Tuxedo, 
Parkette, High 14, Panjandrum, Flip and several others. Plain, clear 
rules for playing. Some are for young, some for adult players; some 
for from 2 to 8 players. Price, 50 cents .—Schwarz and Parker. 

“All Aboard." 

A railroad game played with cards. It sounds interesting, and is. 
There are four “suits,” representing the train, flag, lanterns and con¬ 
ductor, and the object is to play the cards skillfully a nd avoid captur¬ 
ing a “Wreck,” with which the game is also provided. All Aboard 
is quite different from other card games in design and method of play > 
and will appeal strongly to boys, big and little. Price, 25 cents. 
Bradley. 

Boy Scouts. 

This is an exciting card game, and is played with a finely enameled 
pack of 50 cards, illustrated with designs of the different famous 
Patrols, the Owl, the Wolf, the Lion and the Curlew. Each patrol 
consists of ten cards, and a leader is printed in a distinctive color and 
design. Price, 50 cents —Parker. 


Toy Soldiers. 

Lead soldiers have been the immemorial delight of children, young 
and old and even childlike men like Robert Louis Stevenson have 
enjoyed’planning out campaigns, executing strategies and indulging 
in mimic warfare. Small companies may be purchased from 50 cents 
up, and they may be added to indefinitely, while the nationalities and 
divisions of the service imitated are well-nigh innumerable. None of 
the devices for making fortresses and other defences is equal to the 
books from the library or the building blocks of the nursery. As for 
missiles, spools and dominoes are all-sufficient. 


Game of Bounce. . . 

In this marble game the marbles are placed, one at a time, in the 
center of the bowl-shaped playing board, which is p e rf °rate d at ^ fhe 
vals with numbered holes. By pressing a lever at the edge of the 
board the marble is shot into the air, and, in falhng, lands in one of 
th- numbered holes-provided, of course, the player makes a good 
shot Otherwise the marble rolls back to the center and does not 
score-. There is a good combination of skill and chance in this game. 
Price, 50 cents —Bradley. 


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Solitaire. 

This standard game, played on the standard Solitaire board, helps 
to cheer many a lonely hour. Price, 50 cents. 

Flip Flop. 

A new method for shooting wooden balls about a board with num¬ 
bered indentations. The balls are placed in the circle, as shown in cut. 
A wooden ball at the end of a revolving piece of wire is called a 
“twirler,” and another wooden ball at the end of a piece of flat spring 
wire attached to the corner of the board furnishes the motive power. 
When the spring is pulled back and released, it hits the ball on the 
twirler, which in turn strikes the wooden balls and rolls them about 
the board in a lively manner. The player scores according to the 
numbers on the indentations in which the balls finally rest. Price, 
50 cents.— Bradley. 

Self-Verifying Seat Work. 

Here are four games alike in principle. Each box contains a lot of 
broken squares, which can be completed only by inserting the small 
pieces of irregular size. A part of the word or the sum is printed 
upon the larger portion of the square, and the rest of the word or the 
answer to the sum is given on the smaller section, which has to be 
fitted on. Only the correct piece will exactly match. There are four 
games: Pictorial Word Building. Picture and Word Matching, Num¬ 
bers Combination One to Six, Numbers Combination One to Ten. 
Price, 25 cents each.— Bradley. 

Educational Music Game. 

A rather pleasing little game, by means of which children can learn 
the names of the notes. There are nine charts of the octaves. These 
are to.be laid down set by set. Each one has an amusing picture. The 
game is played with cards, upon each of which is a representation of a 
note and a little verse. As the verse is read which mentions the pic¬ 
ture on the note, the child hastens to lay down the card from which 
the verse is called. By means of a score the quickness of the players 
is registered.— A. J. F. Hoffman Novelty Co., San Francisco. 

The Bettijak Book. 

Each right-hand page of this book is a picture in colors. In each 
picture is a. door or aperture of some kind, which the children can 
cut out, which reveals some surprising object in the picture beneath. 
The text tells the story of Jack and Betty. As the page is turned, 
each new scene is revealed. Price, $1.25.— Stokes. 

Bull in a China Shop. 

The board or tray, contains four stationary upright pins or posts. 
Around these are painted red dots, on which small wooden pins are 
stood. The top is a patent spring-spinning one, with rounded point, 
which allows it to travel about the board with wonderful rapidity, 
and the player scores according to the number of pins knocked down 
by the erratic top in its mad career. Price, 50 cents— Bradley. 


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Over the Garden Wall. 

The method of play in this fascinating game is entirely new. A 
marble is placed on' a wooden disk that is snapped with the finder, 
causing it to strike an obstruction representing the garden wall. When 
the disk hits the “wall,” the marble jumps over into the barnyard and 
rolls into a hole, the player winning or losing the number of points 
indicated beneath the hole in which the marble rests. Any number 
may play, and the uncertainty of the game creates much fun and 
interest. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Down and Out. 

Down and Out is founded on the famous “Down and Out” towers 
at Coney Island. It consists of spiral tin tower, set in wooden tray, 
painted in colors, with nineteen numbered holes. At the top of the 
tower is a concave platform with outlet to the spiral runway or chute. 
Ten wooden balls are placed in the platform and a wooden top spun 
amongst them, causing some of the balls to roll through the opening 
into the chute and down into the numbered holes in the tray below. 
Price, $1.50.— Bradley. 

Pot the Beans. 

“Bean porridge cold, bean porridge hot— 

Who’ll be the quickest to fill the bean pot?” 

That’s the object of this game—to pick up real beans with a small 
spoon and put them in your bean pot, filling it more ciuickly than your 
opponent can fill his. It doesn’t take long to learn how to play this 
game, but picking up the beans with a spoon is not quite so simple as 
it sounds, and considering that a player touching the beans with his 
fingers must pay a penalty, there is plenty of fun ?nd excitement. 
There are two bean pots, with a supply of beans sufficient to fill them, 
and two spoons. Price, 25 cents. 

Bottle Imps. 

Here is a weird and unusual target game to be played on the din¬ 
ing room table or on the floor. The “Imps” are made in the form of 
bottles with a loaded base, so that they jump upright, no matter in 
what position they are placed. The target is laid flat on the floor and 
the players endeavor to throw the “Imps” on to it. The unique imple¬ 
ments of this game and the uncanny antics of the Imps, which will 
not “lie down,” make it an unusually attractive and fascinating game. 
Price, 35 cents.— Bradley. 


Little Bowler. 

A novel bowling game that reverses the natural order of things, 
and instead of knocking the pins down, stands them on end. I he 
frame is made of wood, and the pins swing on a wire that runs from 
one end of the frame to the other. When a pin is hit it flies up and 
rests on the upper wire, and the number on the bottom of the pin 
shows what score the player has made. The frame is nicely varnished 
and the game is supplied with three wooden balls. Price, 50 cents. 
Bradley. 


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Animal Ten Pins. 

This is a set of comical animals of ten different species, cut out and 
mounted on heavy wood base. There are three balls for the players to 
roll and knock over the animals, making a simple and amusing game 
for small boys and girls. Aside from the use of these mounted ani¬ 
mals as ten pins, children can find much amusement by using them 
for “circus” features, parading, etc. Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 

Which, What, Where? 

A geographical game furnishing an attractive method of verifying 
the principal facts in geography by a system of cards, including ques¬ 
tions and outline maps. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

The Marvelous Wondergraph. 

The Wondergraph is a very amusing toy. Turn the crank, and the 
Wondergraph does the rest. Price, $1.00.— Schwarz. 

Game of Twirl-It. 

Twirl-It consists of a circular playing board, eighteen inches in 
diameter, finished in mahogany, with a series of indentations around 
the board, each distinguished by a number, star or color. The twirl¬ 
ing device in the center of the board is in the form of three aluminum- 
covered semi-circular-shaped sections, into which are placed three 
steel balls or marbles. These semi-circular sections are whirled rap¬ 
idly about by a tuin of the handle in the center, and the marbles are 
sent flying out into the main surface of the board, where they roll into 
the indentations and score or lose, according to the value of the spots 
on which they rest. There is snap and life to this game, and the 
unique method of shooting the balls on the board is fascinating. 
Price, $2.00.— Bradley. 

Turn Over. 

“Turn Over” is made in several sizes and finishes, and consists of 
a long box with built-up playing board. At one end are six numbered 
holes, and it is the object of the player to roll the “Turn Overs” 
(loaded metal capsules) into these holes. The method of playing is 
unique, the player taking hold of the board at its top edge and 
manipulating it so that the “Turn Overs,” one at a time, will roll 
down the board and into the holes. If a capsule misses the holes, it 
rolls into an alley at the extreme end of the box and does not count in 
the score. The loaded capsules, instead of rolling sidewise, turn over 
and over on end in their race down the board, hence the name “Turn 
Over.” Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 

Clown Ten Pins. 

Funny clowns pictured in various positions add to the merriment 
of this modified version of the regular ten pins. The clowns are 
lithographed in colors and mounted on wood base. The method of 
play is the same as in the regular game. Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 


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The Surprise Book. 

A unique idea makes this book a fascinating game for children. The 
story running on the left-hand page tells how Jack and Betty got into 
the Enchanted Wood, and by successively crawling through apertures, 
knot holes, windows, etc., come to one queer place after another. The 
right-hand page consists of colored pictures, each one containing one 
hole, window, or whatever it may be. By cutting out these sections 
of the picture, a portion of the next one may be seen, corresponding 
with the first glimpse the story children get of the new surroundings. 
A similar book, entitled “The Magic Book.” Each, $1.25.— Stokes. 

King Ring. 

This is one of the many modifications of the Tiddledy Winks idea, 
and also one of the best. The pegs are numbered and large colored 
rings are snapped at the pegs, the one winning who has the largest 
score. Price, 25 cents.— Parker. 

Meteor Marble Games. 

The ball Mosaic game “Meteor” is much liked by children, because 
the board-laying-plate makes the placing of the Mosaic patterns an 
easy and sure one, even for the smallest among them. The balls are 
painted with colors free from poison, so that they can be given to 
children without any fear whatever. Price, according to size of outfit, 
25 cents to $5.00— Richter. 

Solitaire Puzzle. 

A small set of old-fashioned Fox and Geese. Small balls are 
placed in holes upon a wooden board. The object of the game is to 
take all the men from the board with the exception of one. The old- 
fashioned game of Fox and Geese may be played by two players, as 
well. Price, 30 cents.— Kindermart. 

Ano Catcho. 

An ingenious game, apparently Japanese in origin. There are small 
ivory figures and three balls lying in the bottom of the box, which is 
lined with silver foil and covered with glass. By rubbing vigorously 
a leather handle across the surface of the glass, the figures and balls 
rise to the surface, dance and assume various unexpected positions. 
Price, 35 cents.— Kindermart. 

Small Traveler's Outfit. 

An assortment of tiny toys put together in a durable box for the 
use of little children traveling. Among the articles are the marvelous 
Japanese water flowers, which open in water, and a variety of little 
playthings which will beguile a long railway journey. The set is 
selected by a woman who takes the deepest interest in the personal 
taste of her patrons. In ordering these sets, the age and sex of the 
child should be mentioned. Price, $1.00 .—Kindermart. 


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PICTURE PUZZLE 

Santa Claus Puzzle Box. 

These pictures show a very modern Santa Claus in an automobile, 
his descent from the chimney and arrival at the Christmas tree. Price, 
25 cents.— Bradley. 

Peter Rabbit Puzzle Box. 

The three pictures in this box show stirring scenes-of the West in 
bygone days. One subject is an attack on the stage by Indians; 
another shows cowboys lassoing a wild steer, while the third depicts 
an emigrant train bound across the prairie. Price, 15 cents.— Bradley. 

Steamship Puzzle. 

This puzzle shows a picture of one of the latest European liners, 
being an exact representation of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. It makes a 
most attractive puzzle, the label being printed in colors and gold and 
mounted on heavy pulpboard, cut up in scrolls. Price, 15 cents.— 
Bradley. 

Little Boy Blue Puzzle Box. 

Fairy-tale characters familiar to all children; three separate puzzles 
in the box. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Sectional Birds. 

This nicely embellished box contains several beautiful pictures cut 
into strips, the subjects being well-known birds. The pictures are 
reproduced in bright colors from sketches made from life. The birds 
represented are the Peacock, Parrot, Ostrich, Duck, Swan, Owl, Crane 
and Eagle. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Sectional Animals. V 

A fine set of sectional animals, lithographed on heavy cardboard and 
cut into strips, put up in a large box with bright, attractive label. On 
the end of each strip is a letter, so that when a picture is put together 
the letters on the side spell the name of the animal. Price, 25 cents.— 
Bradley. 

Richter Puzzles. 

Little blocks of imitation stone of various shapes and sizes. Each 
is packed in a neat box, and there are usually seven pieces in a box. 
With each box comes a book of designs. All the stones in one box 
must be used in every one of the single-box puzzles. All those in two 
boxes must be used with the two-box ones. The “Anchor Puzzle” is 
the first and best known, but there are a score of others. Price, 30 
cents.— Richter. 


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MISCELLANEOUS 

Roller Skates. 

Price, 50 cents, $1.00. Ball-bearing, $1.50, $3.00. 

Choral Top. 

Changes notes while spinning. Price, 25 and 45 cents.— Schwarz . 


< PERIOD FOUR (AGES 10-12) 

In this period the apparatus and toys of greatest interest are 
such as the following: Rings, trapeze, parallel bars, horizontal 
bar, vaulting bar, climbing rope, tumbling bed, climbing pole, 
balance swing, ladder, teeter ladder, sliding pole, jumping stand¬ 
ards,' jumping pole, giant stride, stilts, baseball diamond, basket¬ 
ball court, shinney sticks, ring-toss, horseshoe quoits, ten pins, 
croquet set, tennis court, yard for running games, garden, sloyd 
bench and tools, home-made toys, kites, sail boats, butterfly net, 
fish net, fishing tackle, bows and arrows, target, aquarium, back¬ 
yard menagerie, hut or. cave, double-runner, toboggan, skates, 
artificial skating rink and coasting, if natural facilities are not 
provided; swimming pool, catamaran or Crusoe raft, drawing, 
painting, sewing, embroidery, and bead-work material, musical 
instruments. 


HOUSEHOLD TOYS 

Among the household toys may be found a laundry set, which includes 
clothes basket, tub, wringer and washboard. There are also clothes pins 
and line for hanging clothes to dry. Prices range from 50 cents to $1.50. 

Toy Town Cooking School. 

Contains a bag of real flour, small can of cocoa, package of salt, 
soda, etc., and. comes with, tin shapes for cutting and a board and 
roller upon which to roll out the dough. There are simple little re¬ 
cipes in the cover of the box. Fun and instruction for little girls. 
Size 12^x8^. Price, 50 cents.— Parker . 

Doll's Milliner's Set. 

Includes three hats, tulle, flowers, wire and net to be used as trim¬ 
mings. Price, $1.00 to $3.50. - Best . 


Ice Cream Freezer. 

Although a toy to amuse, it works as perfectly as any largeL. f geezer. 
Holds one pint. Complete, witty directions. Price, $1.25.— Schwarz . 


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Superior Tool Chests. 

Superior Tool Chests, in six sizes, are really superior of their kind, 
because first quality materials have been selected with a special view 
to their usefulness in the household. Every detail has been carefully 
worked out, and the user will find a satisfaction very different from 
that occasioned by the ordinary cheaply constructed chest. Price, 
$3.25 to $15.00.— Am. Mfg. 


HANDWORK TOYS 


Crepe Paper Work. 

Children’s fingers are deft and their minds very active. We are 
more apt to underestimate than to overestimate their ability in copy¬ 
ing and creating handwork. A few bright colors of crepe and tissue, 
a little time spent in explanation, and you will find that the children 
can produce surprisingly artistic birds, pin-wheels, May baskets, etc. 
Many a milliner and dressmaker is born with the talent, and de¬ 
velopment cannot be encouraged too early. 

An interesting field is applique work. Designs cut from crepe paper, 
glued to furniture and then shellacked, are most attractive to the 
nursery, and will stand long and hard wear. Prices on request.— 
Dennison. 

Stamp Pictures. 

Or paster pictures, as they are called. These colored envelope 
stickers, originally used for advertising purposes, are now being manu¬ 
factured in our country in quantities for children’s collections. This 
collecting fad in Europe has led, it is said, to the sale in recent years 
of three hundred billion of these stamp pictures. The subjects include 
animals, birds, scenery, customs, costumes, history, biography, fairy 
tales, nursery rhymes. Furnished with descriptive matter, such pic¬ 
tures would seem to have even greater value than the one-colored 
penny pictures that have been used so much. The makers furnish 
albums. They sell at the rate of about six in a strip for a cent.— 
Paster Picture Co. 

Pictures Made of Crepe and Tissue Paper. 

This field of endeavor is absorbing in its interest to the young 

artist. The background is the starting point in this paper painting_ 

the sky line the first thought. Clouds and sky may be made by layers 
of blue, light shades over dark and white irregular clouds on top 
Water may be of paraffine paper, often with the shadow beneath. 
Prices on request.— Dennison. 

Bead- and Basket-Making Sets. 

This makes artistic and attractive work for little children Price 
75 cents to $1.50. * ’ 

Embroidery sets, 75 cents to $1.50. 

Bead looms, upon which children may work out interesting designs 
may be had from 75 cents to $1.50. 


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Designs for Decoration With Water Colors. 

A set of designs with outline decorations to be filled in with water 
colors. Each design bears a quotation, the decorations suggestive of 
the thought contained in the quotation. When these designs are 
artistically colored and mounted or passepartouted, they make appro¬ 
priate and acceptable gifts. 

There are seventeen designs in the outfit, printed on heavy white 
drawing paper, and six wood cups of water color paints, with a good 
brush. Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 

Loom for Weaving. 

Practical loom for weaving rugs, hammocks and doll-house furni¬ 
ture, 35 cents; with three spools of warp at 20 cents each, 60 cents. 
This is an interesting occupation for children, combining the principle 
of weaving with practical results in toyland equipment.— Bradley. 

Brass Craft. 

Outfits for shaping thin brass and stamping it into all patterns. 
Outfits contain mallet, stippling tool, veining tool, modeling tool, pol¬ 
isher and some of the brass material. Prices, 40 cents to $2.85.— 
Favor Ruhi. 

Welfare Loom. 

A real working loom, with treadles and shifters like the regular 
industrial article. Weaves small carpets and rugs. Furnished with 
wool, shuttle and sample of work. Price, $2.50 .—Child Welfare. 

Japanese Stencil Set. 

Delicate little stencil patterns, mostly of leaves and flowers, with 
water colors and two brushes. The process of work is the same as in 
the Animal Color Stencils listed elsewhere. Price, 25 cents.— Kinder- 
mart. 


MODELING 


Composite Clay. 

This is an excellent substitute for modeling clay and wax. It is 
thoroughly plastic and does not harden like wax nor dry like clay. It 
is worked in the same manner as modeling clay, with the same tools. 
The completed work can be left standing for any length of time and 
the clay worked over again whenever desired. 

Terra Cotta, per pound, 25 cents. Green Gray, per pound, 25 cents. 
Brown, per pound, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Harbutt's Plasticene. 

Harbutt’s Plasticene is a clean, harmless and practically inde¬ 
structible modeling material which can be used over and over again. 
While it is much used by sculptors, artists, architects and others, desir¬ 
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is also invaluable for home amusement, and comes in several forms, 
namely, the Beginners’ Box, the Complete Modeler, the Plasticene 
Designer, Add-a-Bit, etc., according to the age for which it is desired. 
This plastic material will be enjoyed at an even earlier period. 

Terra Cotta, per pound, 35 cents. Green Gray, per pound, 35 cents. 
Brown, per pound, 35 cents .—Best or Hammett. 

New Process Clay Flour. 

This material is the best quality of artists’ clay, very finely pow¬ 
dered by a new process, and packed in dust-tight boxes. One box of 
5 pounds, 25 cents.— Bradley. 


PAINTS AND PENCILS 

Pamos Pastime Pastels. 

These Pastels come in sets of seven different assortments, contain¬ 
ing per box from four to twelve Pastels, ranging in price from 10 
cents to $2.00 per box. There are also work boxes furnished which 
contain, in addition to the Pastels, one pair of blunt scissors and one 
tube of photo paste. Price, per box, from 50 cents to $1.50. This is 
an educational occupation which fosters a truly artistic taste. Chil¬ 
dren using them successfully become expert in the handling of the 
tools employed, and also become more observarit of the beautiful 
possibilities on every side.— Pamos. 

Manual Arts Crayon. 

The Manual Arts Crayon has been devised to supply the demand 
for a crayon that will reproduce the most subtle gradations of color, 
and it will be found unsurpassed for softening intensities of color in 
object drawing and design. By mixing white chalk, an unlimited 
number of tints are readily obtained, while charcoal, with which the 
crayon also mixes easily, produces any desired shade. By combina¬ 
tions of this nature, textures and atmospheric qualities may be ob¬ 
tained equaling high-grade pastel effects. These qualities make the 
Manual Arts an exceptional crayon for school use, and one which 
will be found thoroughly satisfactory for the finest crayon work in 
advanced grades. 

The box contains eight crayons, one each Red, Orange, Yellow, 
Green, Blue, Violet, Brown, Charcoal Gray, put up in slide box. 
Price, per box, 10 cents.— Bradley. 

Combination Stencils. 

The “Combination Stencils” embody in their designs new principles, 
so that while any single figure can be drawn by itself, the same as in 
the old style, figures from several different cards may also be com¬ 
bined to form one picture. 

Each set of eighteen cards is in an ornamental box, containing also 
instructions and samples of full-sized drawings. Price, 25 cents.— 
Bradley. 


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MECHANICAL TOYS 

Wood-Bildo. 

. An attractive construction toy made of strips of clean white wood 
in different lengths. There are slots in the ends of each stick, and 
tnese are joined together by small wooden disks. The price of No 1 
5& Wlt ^ ior „ 5 , 9 models, is 50 cents; No. 2, with designs for 

100 models, $1.00 .—Baker & Bennett. 


The American Model Builder. 

The American Model Builder is a collection of mechanical parts 
constructed on strictly scientific principles, and is designed to teach 
the boy mechanical construction, and at the same time to furnish 
amusement. These outfits comprise all the main parts used in ma¬ 
chinery, such as Pulleys, Gears, Pinions, Axles, Beams, Machine 
bcrews and Bolts, etc., and a complete manual of instruction accom¬ 
panies each. All parts are made interchangeable, and any model can 
be taken down and the same parts used in the construction of other 

£°nn els - An m 3? e in Pr °gressive Outfits, ranging in price from 
$1.00 to $25.00.— Wanamaker. 

Meccano. 

The Meccano is a true toy, yet it comprises exact mechanical parts, 
Lever, Beams, Wheels, Axles, Pulleys, Bolts, etc. They are made 
properly to fit together, thus securing accuracy of construction and 
giving a child a valuable knowledge of practical things while he plays 
with Meccano. With Meccano the child can build bridges, railroads, 
high buildings, derricks, etc., right in his own yard. This is one of 
the invaluable “toys that teach.” Price, $2.00 to $18.50.— Best. 

The Mysto Erector. 

• Another toy made to illustrate the art of structural steel building. 
It is claimed that the girders in this outfit imitate exactly those used in 
modern construction. The manufacturers also claim that the strip is 
stronger and that the outfit contains more pieces than any other. The 
outfit costs from 50 cents to $25.00.— Mysto. 

The Boomeplane. 

An ingenious arrangement by which enough impetus is given to a 
small metal boomerang to send it flying several hundred feet up into 
the trees and back again to the sender. Price, 25 cents .—American 
Institute. 

American Jack Straws. 

A set, put up in durable wood frame box. The straws are made in 
the form of wheelbarrows, saws, ladders, rakes, hoes, shovels, picks, 
guns, spears, etc. These Jack Straws are all made in America, hence 
the title, “American Jack Straws.” Price, 50 cents— Bradley. 


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EDUCATIONAL TOYS 

The Improved Educational Puzzle Map of the United 
States. 

This map is a teacher of History and Geography for young and old. 
It gives on each State the following: Area in Square Miles. Popula¬ 
tion. Electoral Votes, Chief Products, Population of Capital City. 
Capital of United States and its population- Pictures of all the Pres¬ 
idents to date, and many other features. Price on wood, complete, 
$1.50. Cardboard, without scale or extra map, $1.00.— Irving. 

United States Map. 

A modern and authentic map of the United States, mounted on 
wood. The map is lithographed in bright colors, and accurately cut 
on State lines. On the back of the map are correct representations 
of the flags of the various nations, making two complete dissected 
puzzles. Put up in glacine envelope in large box. the size of map. 
One of the best dissected maps on the market. Size, 14x20. Price, 
each, 75 cents.— Bradley. 


NATURE 

Garden Plan. 

This is a stout envelope filled with the plans of a practical little 
garden for children, with directions and seed packets for carrying out 
the working plan. There are also little colored sticks with which to 
mark the seeds and showing the children what color of flower they 
may expect. Price, $1-25- .... , 

Baskets of garden tools, with stakes and other implements tor lur- 
thering children's gardening. $L50. 

Garden aprons stenciled with flowers are also supplied for children. 


Gardencraft Toy. 

A pretty pasteboard house with the set of pasteboard flowering 
plants, each marked on the bade with its name and some simple facts 
regarding its care and blossoming. There is also a set of little 
wooden bricks, between which these shrubs are set up. The result is 
that when this toy is put together by the child, he has a charming 
home and garden for his dolls, and incidentally has learned something 
about real gardening. Price. 25 cents to %\2.¥).—Gardencraft Toy Co. 

Riker's Flower Press. 

A portable press for flowers which keeps the natural color by a 
system of corrugated paper, blotting paper and cotton. The flowers 
are imbedded in the cotton and the two boards at both ends of the 
press hold the material together with a strap. An excellent accom¬ 
paniment of a day’s stroll in the woods or by the sea. Price, $1.50.— 
Butterfly Store. 


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Boy Scouts. 


GAMES 


Every one who is interested in the great "Bor Soots*’ ■ofOBOd will 
enjoy this game. The object is for a dispzzch mmer to carry a 
messagejrom one field otncer at the head of the game icard to in- 
other officer at the bottom of the board, and back with rh**- 

answer. A patrol of Scoots is appointed to intercept the messenger, 
either on his outward journey or. failing r h^~ on hzs return. bone. 
From two to eight players may take part in this game. The pcaying 
board is of unique design and depicts many stirring scenes in the life 
of a Scout. Price. 25 cents.— Bradley. 


Scouts and Indlyns. 

The implements consist of eight Indians and righr Scents, in the 
shape of metal figures, which add realism to the game. The A-^rgrr 
of the board includes Indian Wigwams and Seem Cabins, and the 
object of the game is to capture all of the opponent's men. When the 
game starts, each side has an equal chance, and the omotese depends 
entirely upon the skill of the players. Price. 5L25.— Bradley. 


PlRATE AND TRAVELER. 

The Game Board is a map of the world, and the Travel Cards indi¬ 
cate journeys to be made fay travelers. 

The cards also show the products of different peaces, and are wen 
as the players reach corresponding points on the map. AH romes of 
travel are well-known railroad and steamsh:; lines, and players ac¬ 
quire a knowledge of these, also the chief cities anf ports and their 
principal articles of commerce. The Pacific Ocean is divided at each 
side of the Game Board, making it a fiat playground. Price. 5125.— 
Bradley. 


Deck Ring Toss or Lawn Toss. 

May be used cm the lawn or indoors. Each player in turn throws 
the seven rings, one at a rime, endeavoring to ring the post. The 
player succeeding in throwing the most rings :ver his oppooeat’s post 
wins the game. Excellent sport for old and y: nag. Price. 51.‘i.— 

Parker. 


Telegraph Game. 

Realistic music of the wires is provided by the telegraph instru¬ 
ments contained in this game, and entert.i~nn.ent and mstmettm ntj 
be derived from its use. It is supoaed with a correct copy of rise 
Morse telegraph code, and with snneient practice the playe r s may 
transmit messages to one another by exactly the same method as used 
by professional telegraphers the world over. Besides the rws tele¬ 
graph tickers, the box contains a rubber stamp and pad. messenger 
bov’s cap and mask, cardboard telegraph tree, envelopes and tele¬ 
graph blanks, cablegram and night letter blanks, anf a supply of toy 
money, pencil?, etc- all rut up in partitioned box with col: red litho¬ 
graph label. Price. 51.00.— Bradley. 







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Toy Town Post Office. 

Not only is this game very interesting in itself, but it will convey 
to the young players an excellent and true idea of the ways of the 
United States postal system. 

These post offices are made in three editions, the largest being $1.00, 
the next in size 50 cents, and the smallest 25 cents .—Parker and 
Bradley. 

Toy Town Telegraph Office. 

Comes with toy telegraph instrument or ticker, Morse code as used 
by the telegraph companies, with a plain explanation which a child 
can readily understand; day, night letter and cable telegraph blanks, 
envelopes and toy money; a lithographed cardboard office, through 
which toy money is paid for sending telegrams; pencils and rubber 
canceling stamp with pad. Brightly colored and very attractive. 
Price, 50 cents.— Parker. 

Toy Town Conductor's Game. 

To “play train” is one of the most popular joys of childhood, espe¬ 
cially boyhood. A few kitchen chairs, and the material in Toy Town 
Conductor’s Game will provide for a small boy the maximum enjoy¬ 
ment of this pastime. Imagine his delight in issuing real tickets and 
punching them with a real punch. This outfit includes nearly a hun¬ 
dred tickets of various kinds, as New York to Philadelphia, Boston to 
New York, St. Paul to Omaha, etc., passes, sleeping car tickets, com¬ 
mutation tickets, cash fare certificates, six-trip tickets. There are also 
telegraph blanks, hat checks and baggage checks. A red flag is pro¬ 
vided for danger signals and a green flag to denote “train following.” 
To make the realism complete, there is a conductor’s combined hat 
and mask, lithographed lantern, whistle and over fifty dollars in toy 
money. A folding ticket office, lithographed to look like one in a real 
railway station, is also included, and a conductor’s punch completes 
the material. Price, $1.00.— Bradley. 

Toy Town Bank. 

The child who gets a set of this material will unconsciously and 
without effort absorb a better knowledge of banking than is pos¬ 
sessed by many adults. It includes a bank front with teller’s window 
lithographed in realistic colors and mounted on wood bases so as to 
stand on the table; four bank books, a liberal supply of checks, de- 
• posit slips and over a thousand dollars in toy money, comprising bills 
and coins of various denominations. With one player acting as 
teller and others as depositors, regular banking hours may be main¬ 
tained, and the play resumed from time to time till the depositors 
have all their “money” in the bank. They may then check it out in 
small amounts to transact business with one another. In this way 
the game is prolonged indefinitely with no flagging of interest, and 
with an undercurrent of real educational value. The material is en¬ 
closed in a box with partitions for the various supplies. Price, 50 
cents.— Bradley. 


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Game of Twenty-Five. 

This game for children is simple and interesting, and develops rapid 
mental calculation. The cards are played face downwards, and the 
players watch for cards with numbers making a total of twenty-five, 
each combination of that total scoring for the player who calls it. 
There are sixty cards in this game, and the directions are concise and 
comprehensive. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Spinette. 

A game of chance that never ceases to amuse. Any number may 
play, and the uncertainty makes the interest intense and absorbing. A 
simple little novelty of lasting interest. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 


Electrical Wonder Book. 

When this book is opened, the left-hand page reveals a picture of a 
school-master with a pointer which may be turned to. any one of a 
number of questions in a circle. On the opposite page is.a schoolboy, 
also with a pointer. When a question is asked the book is closed, the 
cover tapped lightly three times, and on opening the book the school¬ 
boy is found pointing to the correct answer. This novelty is a source 
of unwaning fascination to young and old. Price, $1.00.— Bradley. 

Backgammon Board. 

A new board which shows how surprisingly attractive a Checker 
Board can be made by modern lithography and the use of embossing 
dies. The outside paper is in imitation red morocco, printed and 
embossed in black and gold leaf, with finely lithographed Backgam¬ 
mon Board inside. Supplied with thirty red and black checkers, two 
dice cups and dice. This board is made with strong wood frame, and 
the contents are nicely packed in carton. Size, 17^x18^4. Price, 
$1.25 ; express extra.— Bradley. 

Down the Pike. 

A reading game that has made itself popular all over the country. 
No “brain fatigue” in this—all fun and jollity. Any number can 
play. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Anagrams. 

This is a modern version of the old well-known game of. “Letters,” 
from which many children have received their first lessons in spelling. 
In this edition the letters are printed on heavy cardboard and put up 
in box with lithographed label. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 


Auction Anagrams. 

All lovers of spelling and letter games will find here a treat which 
will give immense pleasure. This consists of a pack of highly enam¬ 
eled, round-covered cards bearing letters, and a box of cardboard 
checks of various values with which to bid for these letters in order 
to complete words of four letters. The simple features of an auction 
lend life and spirit to the game. Price, 50 cents.— Parker. 


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Modern Authors. 

These cards are lithographed from new portraits of the most popu¬ 
lar recent writers. There are sixty cards, fifteen sets of four cards 
each. Among the authors represented are: Clemens, Field, Cable, 
Howells, Stevenson, Stockton, Crawford, Kipling, Caine, Barrie, 
Parker and Stanley. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Snap. 

The cards are made up with original and humorous designs printed 
in colors, put up in a box. Price, 25 cents.— Bradley. 

Shadowgraphs. 

The art of making shadows on the wall with the hands in imitation 
of various animals has always been a popular pastime. “Shadow¬ 
graphs” bring this fun up-to-date and produce the same results, only 
more accurately, by means of punched-out cards through which the 
light shines and makes a shadow or picture on the wall. The designs 
are movable and are lithographed in colors on heavy cardboard. 

Shadowgraphs will amuse all the little folks and many of the big 
ones. Price, 25 cents to 50 cents.— Bradley. 

Table Croquet. 

This excellent set contains four mallets of generous size, accu¬ 
rately turned, handsomely striped and varnished; four balls, also 
striped and varnished, together with twisted wire wickets that fit in 
wooden bases, and tapes with string clamps for affixing to the table 
edge. The box is of wood with hinged cover and nicely painted in 
Forest Green color and varnished. Price, 50 cents.— Bradley. 


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FOR YOUNG FOLKS OF HIGH SCHOOL AGE 

PERIOD FIVE (AGES 13-15) 

The most interesting activities for children of the fifth period 
are an outdoor gymnasium (the boys, with the aid of blacksmith 
and carpenter, can provide apparatus for such gymnasium, if it is 
not possible to buy apparatus of regular manufacturers), running 
track, jumping standards, apparatus for vaulting, hurdles, eight- 
pound shot, baseball and football field, tennis court, bowling 
green, croquet sets, basketball court, skating rink, indoor gym¬ 
nasium, swimming pool, home-made boats, rowboats, sailboats, 
guns, fishing tackle, workshop, electrical and mechanical toys, 
den or clubhouse, garden, pets, menagerie, vivarium, aquarium, 
nature collections, puppet theater, musical instruments, outfit of 
some sort for painting, modeling, carving, or burning; material 
for sewing, beadwork, or embroidery. 


HANDWORK 


Basket Weaving. 

Set of materials for basket weaving, including flexible cardboard, 
rivets and braid. Price, $2.00. 

Paper Flower Outfits. 

These outfits contain petals, stamens, leaves, wire and all necessary 
material for making Crepe and Tissue Paper Flowers. . Among the 
flowers are poinsettia, carnation, chrysanthemum, rose, wistaria, fleur- 
de-lis, Easter lily and daisy, varying in price from 25 cents for the 
daisy outfit to $1.00 for the poinsettia. Dennison. 

Crepe Paper Rope Work. 

Baskets are probably the most natural subject for rope work, for 
baskets are interesting to all and are a hobby with not a few. There 
are flower baskets, scrap baskets and trinket baskets. .Candle shades 
and lamp shades can be made from this material, also jardinieres and 
flower pots. The shellac sheds water, and so establishes their prac- 

t^Material for this work comes in hanks 36 feet long, in plain or 
combination colors, varying in price, according to size of rope, from 
15 cents per hank for the Vs inch to 50 cents per hank for the ^ inch. 

Prices for wire and adhesives, twine, gummed cloth tape and mat 
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The Bartholomew Mat Frame. 

A. scheme for knotting and tying with frame for making useful 
doilies, hot-dish mats, etc. Each, 25 cents. Soft knitting cotton to 
use with this frame, per ball, 5 cents.— Bradley. 

Passe Partout Outfits. 

No.l.—Picture framing outfit contains binding, oaste and suspen¬ 
sion rings. Size of box, 4$4x%xl. Price, per outfit, 25 cents. 

No. 2.—Telescope Cover Box with Picture Top. Size, lO^x^xl. 
A desirable outfit for framing small or medium-sized pictures. Price, 
50 cents. 

No. 3. Telescope Cover Box, partitioned and with picture top. 
Size. 1154x10. Everything that is required and plenty of it is in this 
outfit. Price, per outfit, $1.00. 

Binding, mat stock, hangers and creaser are sold separate from the 
outfit.— Dennison. 

Favorite Stencil Outfit. 

Contains one bottle Barclay varnish, one bottle permanent mixture, 
one small size stencil brush, one large size stencil brush, one stencil 
knife, one dozen thumb tacks, one improved Japanned tin palette, one 
double size oil tube each, blue, yellow, red, brown; one white wood 
board for cutting stencils, one piece material fctf practice, two cut 
stencils, three sheets stencil board, and book of instructions. Packed 
in leatherette box, each, $2.00. 

How to Draw a Bungalow. 

A senes of plates. Size, 9xIZ, presenting a complete idea of how 
a house is drawn and built. Portfolio, price, each, 50 cents .—Bradley. 

Easy Sign Marker. 

By means of this equipment a near and painstaking boy should find 
not only considerable diversion, but possibly a means for a little 
pocket money-making. With this outfit he should be able to print 
neatly special signs for tradesmen at far less than the printer’s price. 
In any event, he should find it an excellent training in accuracy and 
good workmanship. Prices vary according to size of outfit, from 50 
cents to $15.00, but we recommend as within the worker’s power a 
set of moderate size type, as it is difficult with rubber stamps to gain 
an even impression where the type is too large— Smith. 

Typewriting. 

We do not advocate the use of typewriters which are so much of a 
toy that they are worked on a different principle from the regulation 
typewriter, obliging the learner to unlearn when he encounters a 
standard machine. There are, however, several excellent portable 
typewriters ranging in price from $15.00 to $50.00, and we feel that 
their use will prove far more educational to a beginner than the toy 
apparatus now on the market. 


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SCIENTIFIC 

Edison Home Kinetoscopes. 

The Edison Home Kinetoscope is a combined motion picture 
machine and kinetoscope, making possible moving picture exhibitions 
in the home parlor. Light may be furnished by a small acetylene 
generator or by a Nernst lamp. Both of these have been perfected 
by Mr. Edison for this machine. Small rolls of films are used. 
These films may be exchanged for other pictures of the same class, 
and the exchanges kept up indefinitely. 

Acetylene lighting equipment, $65 to $70. 

Nernst lamplighting equipment, $65 to $70. 

Baby arc lighting equipment for direct current, $72 to $77. 

Baby arc lighting equipment for alternating current, $83 to $88.—- 
Gimbel. 

Radioptican.—Post Card Picture Machine. 

Accepts without any preparation the ordinary souvenir postcards, 
clippings or illustrations from books and reflects them upon a screen 
(bed sheet), greatly enlarged, faithfully reproducing the natural 
colors. Price, $3.00 to $35.00. Mirrorscope for gas or electricity, 
$1.00 to $20.00.— Best. 

Tuck's Travelogues. 

A list of subjects in sets, depicting interesting places, and scenes 
throughout the entire world. Copies, of. famous paintings of old 
masters, religious subjects, etc. Their lifelike colors make them 
especially desirable for those who have picture projectors. Six cards 
in packet. Price, 15 cents.— Tuck. 

Stereoscopes and Stereographs. 

The stereoscope is a well-known optical device, but it is only re¬ 
cently that its educational possibilities have become realized. As is 
well known, places seen by means of the two lenses of a stereoscope 
give them sense of solidity, depth and space. The roundness of con¬ 
tour and the effect of perspective and the sense of life size make a 
deep impression upon young people. Recently one publisher of stereo¬ 
graphs has developed the invention of a key-map system, which not 
only gives the beholder of a scene the exact location of his viewpoint, 
but also acquaints him so that he is conscious both of direction in 
which he is looking and of the field of vision. Valuable collections 
of travel, geography and biography are now available, accompanied 
by guide-books prepared by good authorities. Stereoscopes cost 85 
cents, 90 cents and $1.25 each, and the stereographic views are two 
dollars a dozen.— Underwood. 

Washington School Collections of Minerals. 

The name Washington Collections has been adopted because they 
were first introduced in that city, Supt. Powell having offered the first 
60 sets made for the schools of Washington. In this way, Prof. 
Powell and other teachers, as well as members of the United States 
Geological Survey and National Museum, have been consulted, and 


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have aided in the preparation of these collections to the end that they 
should not only be lower in price than anything heretofore attempted, 
but should, at the same time, be the best possible for school children. 
There are three collections in all, $3.00 each, containing 120 different 
minerals and rocks, together with text book. Any one of these would 
prove an inspiration to the young collector.— Howell’s. 

Pierce Arrowplane. 

A model thirty-inch flier, guaranteed to make a flight of 700 feet. 
It is furnished with a metal winder. Price, ready to fly, $4.00; in 
knocked-down form, $1.50. 

“Percy Pierce Racer,” No. 68, is said to be the world’s record 
holder, having flown over 3000 feet. Each racer is guaranteed to 
have flown one-quarter mile in distance. Price, ready to fly, $8.00; 
in knocked-down form, $3.80 .—Percy Pierce. 


GAMES 

Major League Baseball Game. 

In the Major League Baseball (board) Game, 240 American and 
National League ball-players participate. Choice of 6 pitchers and 2 
catchers included with each of the 16 clubs. A regular field with 18 
players in position (real men). Players play in all positions on the 
field, and go to bat from the benches in regular batting order. Every 
play, every detail, as true as the real game between any two maior 
league clubs on the field. Plays all 16 clubs in their regular batting 
order. Price, $2.50.— Wanamaker. 

The Wizard Baseball Game Board. 

On the Wizard the ball is pitched, batted and fielded the same as 
on the diamond, which makes it an excellent scientific game. A fast 
or slow ball, with in or out curve, can be pitched on this board, and 
the ball must be batted and fielded the same as on the diamond. 
For these reasons, it is the nearest to the outdoor national game of 
all parlor games on this subject.— Schwarz. 

Crokinole. 

This edition of this famous game is put up in octagon shape. The 
board is very lively and brings out the game’s best qualities. The 
playing rings are of good quality, and are securely packed in a small 
compact box. The frame of the game is strongly put together, and 
is of the best varnished wood. Price, $1.00.— McLoughlin. 

Midget Billiards Combination Board. 

With this board an ingenious patent cue is furnished, by which 
players seated at the board can propel disks accurately in any direc¬ 
tion, and play Billiards, Pool, Croquet, and a dozen other games, in a 
miniature form, that invests them with fresh charm. This new im¬ 
plement is a genuine novelty, the most attractive thing in its line that 
has appeared in some time. Board has heavy wood frame, and is in 
full colors. Full directions for fifteen games. Price, $2.00,—-' 
McLoughlin , 


Part Three 


List of the Best Stories to Tell to Children 



CHARACTER-BUILDING SHORT STORIES 

IN TYPEWRITTEN FORM 


The Institute has collected with great care a series of 
stories (in typewritten form) for the assistance of parents who 
desire suitable stories for helping to develop certain traits of 
character, such as courage, unselfishness, obedience, etc. Most 
of the stories are suitable for telling aloud. They are not 
only carefully classified under different traits of character, 
but also graded according to age. The parenthetical figures 
(0-6) mean that a given story is suitable to children up to six 
years of age. This grading is necessarily approximate. The 
stories selected for the earlier grades are imaginative in char¬ 
acter; those for the older grades are realistic. A few stories 
have been selected for the high school years. In the choice 
of these stories the endeavor has been made to seek out most 
plentifully those which have to do with the common faults 
of children. The more difficult the problem the more numer¬ 
ous are the selected stories. 

Any of these stories will be sent, two or three at a time, 
upon request. 

This story service should be of great value to mothers 
because the Educational Staff of the Institute has scanned the 
best story-telling manuals, the best children’s story-books 
and the children’s “libraries,” “treasuries” and other extensive 
collections. In other words, the Institute makes available to 
the mother its own great children’s library and all the best 
subscription libraries. No private library contains half of 
these significant stories. The Institute’s file of purposive 
stories is continually growing, and there will always be avail¬ 
able more stories under nearly every caption than those listed 
here. 

Ambition (Aspiration) 

Two Foolish Birds (0-6).Fairy Stories and Fables 

The Gourd and the Pine Tree 

(6-8) .For the Children’s Hour 

Whittington and His Cat (6-8)_Fifty Famous Stories Retold 

The Adventurous Life of an 

Acorn Fairy (7-10).My Days with the Fairies 

The New Partner (7-10).In the Heart of the Forest 






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The Ambitious Rose Tree (7-10). .Bimbi Stories 

Lampblack (7-10).Bimbi Stories 

The Goblin and the Huckster . /TTT 1N 

(H-12) .Golden Rule Series (Word) 

He Aimed High and Hit the 
Mark (12-15).Stories from Life 

Amiability (Gentleness: See also Cheerfulness, Love) 

Tommy Torment (4-6).Manuscript 

The Tale of Sir Cleges (6-8).Tales of Early England 

Old Pipes and the Dryad (7-10) .. .Fanciful Tales 
Little Blue Gown and the Butter- 
fly (7-10).Boys and Girls Bookshelf 

Appreciation (See also Gratitude, Thankfulness) 

The Legend of the Christmas Rose . 

(7_10) .Christmas in Legend 

Hans Schmel'z (12-15).A Course in Citizenship 

Attention (See also Determination) 

The Minstrel’s Song (6-8).Mother Stories 

Beginning with Small Things 

The Fairy’s New Year Gift (6-8) . .Good Stories for Great Holidays 

Three Questions (10-13) .Ethics for Children 

Businesslikeness (See Carefulness, Promptness, Shrewdness, Thrift) 
Carefulness (See also Cleanliness, Forgetfulness) 

Blunder (7-10).Broadening Path 

The Story of Alnaschar (7-13) ... .Broadening Path 
Charity (See also Generosity, Helpfulness,. Service) 

A Child’s Good Work (0-6).Bed-Time Stories 

The Story of Child Charity (0-6) . .Wonderful Chair 
Abraham and the Old Man (6-8) . .Book of Legends 

Cheerfulness (Hopefulness) 

The Smile Fairy (0-6).Manuscript 

The Walnut Tree That Wanted to . . 

Bear Tulips (0-6).Kindergarten Stories and Morning 

Making the Best of It (6-8).... •. fortfil Children’s Hour 
The Story of Merrymind (6-8) .. .Wonderful Chair 
How Diseases and Cares Came 

Among Men .Old Greek Stories ... 

The Chdstmas Cuckoo (7-10).Good Stories for Great Holidays 

The Magic Mask (7-10)..........Golden Rule Series 

The Horse That B’leeved He d 

There (7'10)..Story-tell Lib 

t£ Miller of the Dee (7-10).Fifty Famous Stones Retold 

Pippa Passes (7-10).....For the Childrens Hour 

T Dog aO-ld) 3 ”. and .. th . C .-I " 8 .Golden Rule Series (Key) 

C Sk Bobble 6 "^?) . C ? U "! e ! y -?.\ Course In Citizenship 

The Enchanted Cave (6-8)........The Golden Spears 

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Father Damien (10-13).Literary Readers, Book V 

The Man Who Knows No Fear 

(12-15) ..Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Cleanliness (See also Carefulness) 

Dirty Jack (0-6).My Picture Poetry Book 

The Pig Brother (0-6).Golden Windows 

Carl and the Earthworms (0-6) ... Stories for Kindergartens and Pri- 

,, ] mary Schools 

The Kittens’ Bath (0-6).Manuscript 

Keep Clean Inside (0-6).Manuscript 

The Thumb Fish (4-6).Manuscript 

Tom, the Water Baby (6-8).For the Children’s Hour 

Ethel and Isel (6-9).Manuscript 

Common Sense 

Epaminandas and His Auntie (7- 

10) .Stories to Tell to Children 

Concentration 

The Five Brothers (0-6).Character Building Readers 

Working in the Garden (0-6).Character Building Readers 

Never Say Die (4-6).Character Building Readers 

The Mouse’s Tail (4-6).Character Building Readers 

The Schoolmaster’s Rule (4-6) .... Character Building Readers 

The Hill (4-6).The Golden Windows 

What the Boy Saw (10-13).Moral Instruction 

The Little Hero of Haarlem (10- 
13) .How to Tell Stories to Children 

Conscientiousness (See Beginning with Small Things, Faithfulness, Loy¬ 
alty) 

Consecration 

Arthur and the Sword (9-12).How to Tell Stories to Children 

How Arthur Became King (9-12).King Arthur and His Knights 

The Quest Flower (10-13).Jewel’s Story Book 

The Sacred Flame (12-14).Christ Legends (Lagerlof) 

Considerateness (See Appreciation, Gratitude, Tact) 

Contentment 

The Country Mouse and the Town 

Mouse (0-6).Fables and Folk Stories 

The Discontented Weathercock 

(0-6) .Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Fairy Gifts (0-6) .... .Fairy Life 

The Tale of the Littlest Mouse 

(0-6) .For the Children’s Hour 

The Fisherman and His Wife 

.(6-8) .Fairy Stories and Fables 

Silver Bells (6-8).Manuscript 

The Wonderful Traveler (6-8)-The Story in Primary Instruction 

Galoshes of Fortune (6-8).Wonder Stories 

The Discontented Pendulum (6-8) .Waste Not, Want Not 
The Discontented Guinea Hen 
(7-8) 


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The Little Rabbit Who Wanted 

Red Wings (6-8).For the Story Hour 

The Bee Man of Orn (7-10).Fanciful Tales 

The Golden Windows (7-10).Golden Windows 

Princess Orchid’s Party (8-11)_My Days with the Fairies 

The Magic Shirt (10-13).Character Building Readers 

Plutarch’s Contented Men (10-13) .Manuscript 
Tad (10-13).Manuscript 

Co-operation (See also Friendliness, Loyalty) 

The Quails (4-7).A Course in Citzenship 

The Birthday Honors of the Fairy 

Queen (6-8).Manuscript 

Hans and the Four Big Giants 

(6-8) ..The Story in Primary Instruction 

Courage 

The Scared Little Engine (0-6)-Manuscript 

Stoorworm (6-8).,.Fairy Tales from Folk Lore 

Limpetty Jack (7-10).Land of Pluck 

The Boy Who Knew No Fear (10- 

12) .Stories from Life 

The Eyes of the Ring (10-13)-In Story-telling Time 

Madam Meynier (10-13).Moral Instruction 

The Knight with the Badly Made 
Coat (10-15).King Arthur and His Knights 

Courtesy (Manners: See also Chivalry) 

For the Little Boy Who Will Not 

Say “Please” (0-6).Stories from Plato 

The Fairy in the Mirror (0-6)_Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Golden Keys (6-8).Manuscript 

A Day with a Courteous Mother 

(10-13) .A Course in Citizenship 

Two on a Street Car (12-15).Broadening Path 

Dependableness (Responsibility) 

Hans and the King (6-8).Manuscript 

The Fairy’s New Year Gift (6-9)..Good Stories for Great Holidays 

Felix (7-10).....Christmas in Legend 

When Lena Hid from the Fairy 

Queen (7-10).Manuscript 

The Griffin and the Minor Canon 

(7_10) .Fanciful Tales 

Gerald the Coward (10-13).Golden Rule Series (Key) 

The Lantern That Was Put on 

Trial (10-13).Manuscript 

He Told the Truth (10-13).Manuscript 

Determination (See also Energy, Perseverance) 

Little Claus and Big Claus (0-6) .. .Wonder Stories 
How the Princess Was Beaten in 

a Race (6-8)...Book of Legends 

Princess Finola and the Dwarf 

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Andrew Jackson, the Boy Who 
Never Would Give Up” (12-15). Stories from Life 

Vitai Lampada (12-15).Henry Newbolt 

Columbus (12-15).Joaquin Miller 

Efficiency (Skill) 

Giant Energy and Fairy Skill (6- 

8) .Mother Stories 

The Tug of War (6-8).Manuscript 

Two Ways (6-8).Golden Windows 

Can and Could (8-11).Golden Rule Series (Door) 

The Champion Stonecutter (10-13).Good Stories for Great Holidays 

Energy (See also Courage, Determination) 

“Westward Ho” (12-15).Stories from Life 

Faith (Trust, Religion) Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

A Lesson of Faith (0-6).Christmas in Legend 

The Sabot of Little Wolff (6-8)... Manuscript 
The Man Who Saw His Own 

Spirit (10-13).Manuscript 

The Know-Nothing Land (10-13) . Wonder Stories 

Faithfulness (See also Fidelity) 

Dora, the Little Girl of the Light¬ 
house (0-6).Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

, i j Stories 

Firefly (6-8).Stories of Humble Friends 

Dog Gellert (6-8).Book of Legends 

Ivanoushka, the Simpleton (6-8)..Folk Tales from the Russian 

The Prince of Naples (6-8).Fairy Tales from Folk Lore 

Beauty and the Beast (6-8).Fables and Folk Stories 

The Little Girl in the Lighthouse 

(7-10) .Stories for Little Listeners 

The Death of Roland (9-12).The Story of Roland 

The Enchantment of Tara (10-13). Heroes of the Dawn 
In the Snow (10-13).In the Heart of the Forest 

Forgetfulness (Carelessness: See also Carefulness) 

The Kitten That Forgot How to 

Mew (0-6).Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

The Fairy Who Came to Our 
House (7-10).In the Story Hour 

Forgiveness 

Forgive and Forget (7-10).Golden Rule Series (Path) 

A Great Repentance and a Great 
Forgiveness (10-13).Golden Rule Series (Key) 

Fortitude (See also Courage, Faith, Heroism, Perseverance) 

The Princess of the Fearless 
Heart (4-8).Manuscript 

Friendliness (Kindliness) 

Wolves, the Dogs and the Sheep 

(0-6) . 

Good and Bad Apples (6-8). 



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Pietro da Cortona (7-11).Golden Rule Series (Door) 

The Snappy Snapping Turtle (7- 

11) .Golden Rule Series (Door) 

The Fairy Who Judged His 

Neighbors (7-11).The Golden Rule Series (Door) 

Friendship (See also Friendliness, Appreciation, Sympathy 
Drakesbill and His Friends (6-8).. hairy Stories and Fables 
Generosity (See also Charity) 

Peter and the Magic Goose (0-6)..Fairy Stories and Fables 

The Huntsman’s Son (6-8).The Golden Spears 

Maud Granger’s New Dress (6-8) . Bed-Time Stories 
The Wooden Shoes of Little Wolff 

(6-8) ..Good Stories for Great Holidays 

The Fairies of the Caldon Low 

(7-10) ..Treasury of Verse for Little Children 

The Violet in the Valley (7-10)... Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

The Happy Prince (7-10).The Happy Prince 

The Wheat Field (7-10).Golden Windows 

Margaret of New Orleans (10-13). Stories to Tell to Children 

Queen Louise (10-13).Golden Rule Series (Key) 

Genuineness (See also Truthfulness) 

The Little Girl with the Light 

(0-6) .Mother Stories 

Little Blessed Eyes (0-6).In Story Land 

Search for a Good Child (6-8).... Mother Stories 

The White Dove (6-8).More Mother Stories 

Knights and the Good Child (7-10).True Fairy Stories 
Goodness That Is Within (7-10) Stories from Plato 
Good Temper 

Fairy in the Mirror (0-6).Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

The King and His Hawk (6-8).. .Fifty Famous Stories Retold 

The Goddess of Light (6-8).Fairy Tales from Folk Lore 

King Lion and the Sly Little 

Jackals (7-10) .Moral Education 

The Snapdragon (10).Golden Rule Series (Door) 

Gratitude (See also Appreciation) 

A Great Surprise (0-6).For the Children’s Hour 

How Patty Gave Thanks (0-6)_In the Child’s World 

The Ant and the Dove (0-6).Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Faithful John (0-6).German Household Tales 

The Lion and the Mouse (0-6)_Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Wiltse (0-6).Kindergarten Stories and Morning 

Talks 

Our Daily Bread (0-6).Kindergarten Stories and Morning 

Talks 

The First Thanksgiving Day (6-8) . The Story Hour 

Janie Leech’s Angel (6-8).Bed-Time Stories 

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The Candles (7-10).Andersen’s Fairy Tales 

Gifts of the Altars (9-12).Old Greek Stories 

Cyrus and the Armenian King 

(12-15) .Broadening Path 

Greed v 

Rumpelstiltskin (0-6).For the Children’s Hour 

The Jackal and the Spring (0-6).. Golden Rule Series 

The Gingerbread Man (0-6).-.Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

The Greedy Shepherd (6-8).Wonderful Chair 

The Fisherman and His Wife (6-8) Children’s Book 

Fulfilled (6-10) .How to Tell Stories to Children 

Sir Cleges and His Gift (7-10).... Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

The Greedy Antelope (7-10).Golden Rule Series (Path) 

The Sunken City (10-13).The Sunken City 

Helpfulness (See also Service, Kindliness, Sympathy) 

Frisky Toes (4-6).Manuscript 

Sweet Rice Porridge (6-8).The Story in Primary Instruction 

How the Rabbit Pulled the Hippo¬ 
potamus’ Tooth (6-8).Manuscript 

St. Rigobert’s Dinner (6-8).Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts 

The Quest of the Seven Cham¬ 
pions (6-8) .Manuscript 

A Stranger at Five-Points (6-9) .. Good Stories for Great Holidays 

Lena and Puck in the Enchanted 

Land (7-10) .Manuscript 

The Triumph at Tara (10-13).Manuscript 

A Bridge and a Church (10-13) ... Manuscript 
Heroism (See also Self-sacrifice, Courage) 

The Battle of the Rafts (7-10)_Boyhood in Normandy 

The Heroine of Vercheres (10-15).Broadening Path 

The Legend of Bregenz (10-15)_Broadening Path 

The French Soldier Boy (10-15) ... Round-about Rambles 
Hero Worship 

The Red Thread (12-15).Broadening Path 

The Heart of the Bruce (12-15) ... Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 
Honor (Honesty; see also Dependablcness) 

Under the Oak Tree (7-10).In the Heart of the Forest 

Joan of Arc (10-13).Ethics for Children 

The Man Who Refused a Bribe 

(12-15) .Boys’and Girls’Bookshelf 

Regulus (12-15) .Charlotte M. Yonge 

Hospitality 

Three Wishes (6-8).The Pied Piper 

The Wonderful Traveler (6-8)_The Story in Primary Instruction 

Baucis and Philemon (10-13).Broadening Path 

Humility (Modesty) 

The Milkmaid and Her Pail (0-6) . Fairy Stories and Fables 

Bragging Peacocks (0-6).Among the Farm Yard People 

Little Brown Bowl (0-6).For the Children’s Hour 

How the Bluebird Was Chosen 
Herald (6-8) . 


The Emerald Story Book 




























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False Collar (6-8).Wonder Stories 

The Frog and the Ox (6-8).How to Tell Stories to Children 

The Girl Who Trod Upon Bread 

(6-8) ...Wonder Stories 

The Proud King (6-8).Book of Legends 

The Red Shoes (6-8).Wonder Stories 

The Clocks of Rondaine (7-10)... Fanciful Tales 

The Star Child (7-10).The Happy Prince 

Shet-Up Posy (10-15).Story-tell Lib 

King Robert of Sicily (11-15).Longfellow 

Captain Scott (12-15) .Golden Rule Series 

Independence 

The Bell Wether (4-6).Manuscript 

The Man Who Sinned Out of a 

Book (10-13) .Manuscript 

The Old Man and His Donkey 

(12-15) .Broadening Path 

Industry (Work, Laziness) 

Georgie-Lie-a-Bed (0-6) .Careless Jane 

Charlotte and the Ten Dwarfs (0-6) Kindergarten Stories and Morning 

Talks 

Giant Sloth and the Tiddly-Winks 

(0-6) .Cat Tales 

The Little Girl Who Would Not 

Work (0-6) .For the Children's Hour 

The Little Red Hen (0-6).For the Children’s Hour 

The Beaver Story (0-6).True Fairy Tales 

Little Servants (0-6) .In the Child’s World 

Mother Frost (6-8) .The Story in Primary Instruction 

The Sailor Man (6-8).Golden Windows 

Daffydowndilly (6-8) .Manuscript 

Wondering Tom (6-8) .Land of Pluck 

Tony and Teddy Look for Fairies 

(7-10) .My Days With the Fairies 

Fairy Gold (7-10) .Manuscript 

The Snail and the Rose Tree(7-10) Golden Rule Series (Path) 

Dust Under the Rug (10-13).Mother Stories 

Silence (10-13) .Fairy Tales From Many Lands 

Little Daffydowndilly (13) .Golden Rule Series 

For Him Who Lifts the Stone 

(12-15) .Broadening Path 

Initiative (See also Determination) 

The Little Red Hen (0-6).Child Classics 

Kindliness (Mercy. See also Sympathy, Friendliness, Service) 

Mother Magpie’s Mischief (0-6) ... Queer Little People 

Elder-Tree Mother (0-6).True Fairy Stories 

St. John’s Eve (6-8).Fairy Tales From Folk Lore 

House in the Wood (6-8).For the Children’s Hour 

How Coronis Became a Crow (6-8) Stories From Plato 
Eavesdropper, the Ugly Dwarf (6-8) For the Children’s Hour 
The Giftie (6-8).Golden Windows 



































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Cosette (6-8) ..For the Children’s Hour 

Lady Greensleeves (6-8).Wonderful Chair 

Mrs. Chinchilla (6-8).Story Hour 

Two Kinds of Fun (7-10).Character-Building Readers 

The Legend of the Dipper (7-10). For the Children’s Hour 
Why Violets Have Golden Hearts 

(7-10) .Golden Rule Series 

Paulina’s Christmas (10-13).Story-telling 

King of the Golden River (12-15). Golden Rule Series 

John Stuart Blackie (14-17).Broadening Path 

Kindness to Animals 

Barry (0-6) .Stories of Humble Friends 

Fido’s Little Friend (0-6).Little Book of Profitable Tales 

Hans and His Dog (0-6).More Mother Stories 

Shaun “of the Leaf” (6-8).The Fairy Minstrel 

The Fairy Tree of Dooros (6-8) .. .The Golden Spears 

Snow White and Rose Red (6-8). .The Story in Primary Instruction 

St. Gerasimus and the Lion (6-8). .Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts 

St. Cuthbert’s Peace (6-8).Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts 

St. Francis of Assisi (6-8).Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts 

The Queen Bee (7-10).Grimm’s Fairy Tales 

The Yellow Jar (7-10).Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Simpleton (7-10) .Character-Building Readers 

Laziness (See Industry) 

Love 

House of Love (0-6).Golden Windows 

The Ferry to Shadow Town (0-6) .The Sleepy Time Story Book 

Light in the Window (0-6).Bed-Time Stories 

Little Mother (0-6).Bed-Time Stories 

The Fairy Minstrel of Glenmalure 

(6-8) .The Fairy Minstrel 

Kate Crackernuts (6-8).English Fairy Tales 

Picciola (6-8) .Fifty Famous Stories Retold 

Robin of the Loving Heart (6-8) .. Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Coals of Fire (6-9).Bed-Time Stories 

Paying Off Jane (7-10).Bed-Time Stories 

Ragged Robin (7-10).Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

About Angels (7-10) .'..Golden Windows 

The Apron String (10-13).Golden Windows 

The Golden Spears (10-13).The Golden Spears 

The Story of the Jipi (12-15).Self-Culture for Young People 

Loyalty (See also Co-operation, Faithfulness, Fidelity) 

How the Home Was Built (6-8).. For the Children’s Hour 
Sir Thomas Moore (10).Golden Rule Series 

Modesty (See Humility, Purity) 

Obedience 

The Naughty Breeze (0-6).Manuscript 

Fairy Shoes (0-6) .Kindergarten Story Book 

The Chickens in Their Feather 

Beds (0-6) . 

John’s Nap (0-6) . 


The Sleepy Time Story Book 
Dream Children 




































Stories to Tell to Children 


181 


The Child Who Would Not Go to 

Bed (0-6) .Careless Jane 

The Wee Hare and the Red Fire 

(0-6) .The Story in Character Building 

The Little Bat That Wouldn’t Go 

to Bed (0-6) .Among the Forest People 

Old Mother Webtoes (6-8).Careless Jane 

When Ruth and Frank Visited the 

Enchanted Land (6-8).Manuscript 

A Dream Lesson (6-8).Children’s First Book of Poetry 

The Seven Little Goats (6-8).The Story in Primary Instruction 

The Little Pink Pig and the Big 

Road (6-8) ..Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Search for a Good Child (7-10)... Mother Stories 

Who Loved Best (7-10).My Picture Poetry Book 

So-So (7-10) .Golden Rule Series 

Jimmy and the Sharper (10-13)_Broadening Path 

The Matsuyama Mirror (12-15) ... Character-Building Readers 
Opportunity 

The Hour That Maisie Lost (7-10).My Days With the Fairies 
The Loving Ctip Made of Iron 

(10-11) .Golden Rule Series 

The Day (10-13) .Golden Windows 


Order (See also Cleanliness) 

Hands Off (4-6).Manuscript 

Mary Catherine’s Present (6-8) . ..Manuscript 
Patience (with Self and Others) 

Wait and See (0-6).In the Child’s World 

Little Rooster (0-6).Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Diff’ent Kind o’ Bundles (7-10) ... Story-tell Lib 
Patriotism (See also Courage, Heroism, Loyalty) 

Olger the Dane (7-10).Manuscript 

Bravery Honored by a Foe (8-10). Good Stories for Great Holidays 
The Patriotism of Senator Foelker 

(10-13) .Ethics for Children 

Hans Schmelz (10-13).A Course in Citizenship 

Perseverance (See also Determination, Energy) 

The Grasshopper and the Measur¬ 
ing Worm Run a Race (6-8) ... .Among the Meadow People 

Perseverance Wins (6-8).A Course in Citizenship 

Bernard of the Tuileries (7-10)... Stories From Life 

Atalanta (7-10) .Manuscript 

The Singing Snowshoes (7-10)_Manuscript (Forbush) 

The Mouse’s Tail (7-10) ..Character-Building Readers 

A Cow His Capital (10-12).Stories From Life 

Perseverance (10-12) .A Course in Citizenship 

The Two Travelers (10-13).Ethics for Children 

The Inspiration of Gambetta 

(12-15) .Stories From Life 

Samuel Gridley Howe (12-15)....A Course in Citizenship 



























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The Tribune of the People (12-15).Stories From Life 
The Boy Who Said “I Must” 

(12-15) .Stories From Life 

Pluck (See also Cheerfulness) 

I Think I Can (0-6).Manuscript 

Duckey Daddies (0-6) .Manuscript 

Cry Baby (5-7) .Manuscript 

The Singing Snowshoes (6-9) .Manuscript 

Tones and Sausage (10-13).A Course in Citizenship 

What Sand Can Do (10-13).Manuscript 

Sidney Lanier, the Hero Poet 

(10-13) .Literary Readers, Book V 

The Boy From the Bottom (12-15) Broadening Path 
Promptness 

Little In-a-Minute (7-10).For the Storv Teller 

Little Ten Minutes (7-13).Broadening Path 

Puritv 

A Box of Dreams (10-13).My Days With the Fairies 

The Closing Door (12-15)..Mother Stories 

The Judgment Seat of Vikrama- 

ditya (12-15) .Story-telling 

Quarreling 

Ouarrel (0-6) .Fairy Stories and-Fables 

The Wolf and the Lamb (0-6) .... Fairy Stories and Fables 
Why the Quarrelsome Men Were 
Locked Out of the Bird City (6-8) Stories From Plato 

Self-Control (and Temperance) 

Margaret Louise and the Fairies 

(0-6) .Manuscript 

Put on the Brake (0-6).Manuscript 

Keep on the Track (0-6).Manuscript 

Minnie’s Terrible Tongue (4-6) ... Manuscript 

Mr. Smarty (5-6).Manuscript 

Willie Fox and the Glass of Wine 

(7-9) .The House I Live Tn 

Prince Cherry (7-10).Stories to Tell to Children 

The Ring and the Courtier (10-13) Moral Instruction 

St. George and the Dragon (10-13).Golden Rule Series (Path) 

The Faithful Nurse (12-13).Moral Instruction 

Responsibility (See Dependableness) 

Self-Forgetfulness 

The Sin of the Prince Bishop (6-8) Child’s Book of Saints 
The Story of Vain Lamorna (7-10) On a Pincushion 

The Holy Shadow (10-13).Moral Instruction 

Self-Reliance 

The Apron String (6-8).Golden Windows 

The Lark and Her Young Ones 

(6-8) .Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Fairy Gold (6-8) .Manuscript 

























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The Black Prince (10).Golden Rule Series 

Siegfried Who Knew No Fear 

(10-13) .Literary Readers, Book V 

Self-Sacrifice (Magnanimity) 

Sacrifice (7-10) .Seven Little People 

A Story of Long Ago (10).Golden Rule Series (Door) 

Father Damien (10-13).Red True Story Book 

The Story of General Gordon 

(10-13) .Ethics for Children 

A Race With the Wolves (10-13) ..Boys' and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Forty Wrestlers (12-15).The Christian Race 

Soldiers in the Snow (12-15).Broadening Path 

Service (See also Helpfulness) 

The Legend of the Great Dipper 

(0-6) .Kindergarten Stories and Morning 

Talks 

Little Beta and the Lame Giant 

(0-6) ....In Story Land 

The Little Gray Grandmother (0-6) In Story Land 

The Loving Cup (0-6).In Story Land 

The Elves and the Shoemaker (0-6) For the Children’s Hour 
Old Pipes and the Dryad (6-8) .. ..Fanciful Tales 

The Pea Blossom (6-8).Golden Rule Series (Path) 

Fair White City (6-8)..In Story Land 

Iddly Bung’s April Christmas Tree 

(6-8) .Stories for Kindergartens and Pri¬ 

mary Schools 

Arthur and the Sword (10-12).How to Tell Stories to Children 

Where Love Is, God Is (10-13)-Ethics for Children 

The Great Feast (10-13).Golden Windows 

Shrewdness 

Barmecide Feast (6-8).Fifty Famous Stories Retold ' 

King John and the Abbott (6-8)..Fifty Famous Stories Retold 

The Clever Geese (7-10).Stories and Story-telling 

The Little Hero of Lucerne (10-13)Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 
The Wisest Maid in Wessex(12-15)Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Sympathy 

What the Snow Man Did (6-8)...Land of Pluck 

“Go” and “Come” (6-8).Golden Windows 

The Coming of the King (7-10) ... Character-Building Readers 

Trott Goes Driving (7-10).A Course in Citizenship 

Robin Redbreast (10-13).Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Tact (See Kindliness, Sympathy) 

Temper (See Self-Control) 

Thoroughness (Doing One’s Best. See also Faithfulness) 

How to Build a Nest (7-10).Boys’ and Girls’ Bookshelf 

Let Bill Do It (10-13).Manuscript 

Thrift 

Brides on Their Trial (6-8) 

The Heir of Linne (7-10) .. 


German Household Tales 
Tales of Early England 


























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The Waste Collector (10) .Golden Rule Series (Door) 

The Imaginary Story of Dick Sav¬ 
er and Martin Spender (12-15) . Money-Making and Thrift 




Trust 

The Stars (6-8) .Golden Windows 

Golden Pears (7-10).Stories and Story-telling 

Forest of Wild Thyme (10-13)_Alfred Noyes 

Flower of Old Japan (10-13).Alfred Noyes 

Truthfulness (Sincerity. See also Dependableness, Genuineness, Honor) 

The Honest Woodman (0-6).Boston Collection of Kindergarten 

Stories 

Fair Melusina (6-8).Book of Legends 

The Dove Who Sooke Truth (7-10) Good Stories for Great Holidays 

Lady Clare (12-15).Lord Tennyson 

Unselfishness (Self-Denial) 

Benjie (0-6) .Bed-Time Stories 

How Odin Lost His Eye (0-6)_In the Days of Giants 

Dicky Smiley’s Birthday (6-8)_Story Hour 

The Woodpecker (6-8).Character-Building Readers 

The Presents of the Little People 

.(6-8) ..Literary Readers, Book III 

Line of Golden Light (6-8).In the Story Hour 

The Sad Story of a Hog Caterpil¬ 
lar (6-8) .Dooryard Stories • 

The Selfish Tent Caterpillar (6-8).Among the Meadow People 

The Selfish Giant (6-8).The Emerald Story Book 

Thirteen Jeweled Letters (7-10)... A Course in Citizenship 

Why the Chimes Rang (7-10).Why the Chimes Rang 

The Legend of the Woodpecker 

(7-10) ....For the Children’s Hour 

Sir Philip Sidney (10-12).Fifty FamousyStories Retold 

The Coming of the King (10-13).. Golden Windows 

The Ugly Trinket (10-13).After Long Y6ars 

Usefulne’ss (See also Helpfulness) 

Johnny Appleseed (6-8).In Story Land 

The Brownies (7-10) .....Golden Rule Series 

The Story of Pormiuk (10-13)_Broadening Path 

The Hidden Servants (12-15).Stories to Tell to Children 

Apple Seed John (12-15).For the Children’s Hour 

Work (See Industry) 
























Part Four 


List of the Best Pictures for Children and 
Young People 





A LIST OF PICTURES FOR CHILDREN 
AND YOUNG PEOPLE 


Young children are known to have a practically unanimous 
interest in pictures of human beings. Ninety-nine per cent of 
the drawings of little folks are of people. They have no concep¬ 
tion of perspective, they do not notice detail (they will not observe 
that a figure is armless unless some one calls their attention to the 
defect) and they do not care for ornaments; but they begin with 
the head and face, they like to draw people in action, objects of 
daily use and things close at hand. 

Children between six and ten like to recognize in pictures the 
things they know, such as people, plants, houses and animals, and 
the hobbies in which they have begun to be interested. No feeling 
for landscape has been discovered before ten. They like narra¬ 
tive-pictures and good strong colors. 

Young people over ten begin to notice perspective, and they 
observe detail more carefully. Yet before having had lessons 
they instinctively put human heads upon their animals when they 
begin to draw, as if the human interest still dominated every other. 
They like now to try to portray fanciful and dramatic scenes, 
such as incidents in the stories they read and hear, battles, snow 
fights, fires, sports and games, and all the scenic side of life. 

With adolescence comes the first real love of beauty and an 
accompanying interest in quiet pictures of nature. There is still 
a strong liking for story-pictures, particularly those of romantic 
and symbolical character. They love now to trace out details and 
allegories, and to claim as their own favorite pictures which they 
begin to cherish. 

This brief sketch suggests that at every age of childhood it 
is the human interest and the story that win attention. The 
subject is everything; the art with which it is pictured is nothing. 
There is before high-school years no technical criticism, little 
care for composition, selection or tone, and still less any desire 
to know of the history of art. 

A number of the pictures which have been selected are most 
useful in the suggestion of heroic character, patient endurance or 
generous achievement. They are especially the pictures too that 
will last, and so have a lasting influence, 

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The following list is in no sense “the best five hundred” 
pictures for the ages represented. It is simply a list which illus¬ 
trates the points that have just been made. It includes some 
pictures chosen partly because they are not so well known as 
others, and indeed there has been some endeavor to avoid the 
usual subjects used in schools, since this list is to be used prin¬ 
cipally in homes. 

The compiler has had in mind in the following list the 
mothers who wish to secure inexpensive reproductions for scrap¬ 
books and for children to handle, also' larger prints, usually not 
over $1.00 to $5.00, suitable for framing. No effort has been 
made to hunt down every possible edition of a given picture. The 
thought has been simply to indicate examples of prints which do 
not differ too widely in price, and which are excellent in quality 
for the price. There has also been some endeavor to find pictures 
both plain and colored. 

All the pictures named below may be secured through the 
Institute, although, naturally, it may be as fully satisfactory when 
ordering the pictures which cost but a few cents each to secure 
them directly from the publishers. The Institute will be glad, 
when directed, to exercise its choice and taste in the matter of 
finding prints suitable for framing, in sizes, styles and prices not 
named below. 

For those who wish to order pictures direct, the following 
art publishers are named, who have been consulted directly by 
the Institute, and whose catalogs will be sent by them upon re¬ 
quest. In the choice of so few publishers out of so many excellent 
ones no discrimination is intended. The following carry an excel¬ 
lent line of pictures at the prices indicated. In the lists below, 
where no price is given after the publisher’s name, the reader 
should turn to the full name and address of the publisher, where 
it will be found that all his standard pictures are sold at a uniform 
price, which is named. The varying prices of the more expensive 
pictures indicate variety of size, and sometimes, if so stated, that 
the print is colored. In ordering the more expensive pictures 
it is wise to ask first to see a catalogue, which gives sizes. 

The Perry Pictures Company, Malden, Mass., furnish thou¬ 
sands of prints of standard subjects in the form of halftones 
of a velvety tint, usually upon pebbly paper, at 1 cent in quantities 
of twenty-five. They have also a 5-cent and a 7-cent size. 

Other reliable publishers of pennv pictures are George P. 
Brown & Co., Beverly, Mass., and William A. Wilde & Co., 
Boston, Mass. 


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The Cosmos Pictures Company, 119 West 25th Street, New 
York, publish a large series of improved half-tone prints some¬ 
what larger and even softer than the penny prints which they 
sell at 5 cents each, or 25 cents a dozen. 

The American Tissot Society, Jersey City, N. J., furnish the 
reproductions of the popular Tissot paintings of the Old and New 
Testaments at 1 cent apiece in groups of 25; a little less in col¬ 
lections. 

Reinthal & Newman, 106 West 29th Street, New York, are 
the publishers of colored reproductions of works of art on post¬ 
cards, especially an excellent lithograph series of the old masters, 
and the pictures of Jessie Willcox Smith at 5 cents each. They 
also import a more expensive line of larger lithograph German 
prints. 

G. E. Stechert & Co., 151 West 25th Street, New York, also 
import an excellent variety of German colored prints. Atkin¬ 
son, Mentzer & Co., 24 West 39th Street, New York, have a 
similar series. 

The Detroit Publishing Comoany, Detroit, Mich., issue the 
“Thistle Publications,” a series of both the old and new masters 
in photographic carbons, and also in color facsimiles. The special 
prices of their listed pictures are given below. 

Franz Hanfstengl, 38th Street near 5th Avenue, New York, 
imports original photographs from the old masters, prices ranging 
from $1.50 up. 

The Elson Art Publication Company, Belmont, Mass., pub¬ 
lish carbon photographs and photogravures, also “carbon color 
paintings.” Their photogravures cost from $1.00 to $5.00; their 
photographs from $4.00 to $40.00. 

The Taylor Art Company, St. Petersburg, Fla., have a few 
unusually good reproductions in color of masterpieces. 

Curtis & Cameron, Pierce Building. Boston, Mass., publish 
the reproductions of notable paintings, chiefly of American artists. 
These prints are photographs direct from the paintings. 

Edward Gross Company, 853 Broadway, New York, publish 
pictures in color by the popular artists, W. L. Taylor and Tessie 
Willcox Smith. 

A. W. Mumford, 536 South Clark Street, Chicago, publishes 
the largest collection of bird and nature pictures in natural colors 
in the world. The size is 7 x 9 inches. He furnishes those which 
are retailed by Perry and other publishers. The price is 2 cents 
each, but no orders are taken for less than thirteen. 


Pictures for Children and Young People 


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FOR LITTLE CHILDREN 


Four Little Scamps. Adam. 

Children Wading in Surf. Israels. 
Scene in a Court Yard. De Hooch. 
The Grafter. Millet. 

The Pantry Door. De Hooch. 

The Fisherman’s Children. Israels. 
Boy and Rabbit. Raeburn. 

The Blessing. Chardin. 

The Shepherd’s Chief Mourner. 
Landseer. 

By-lo Baby Bunting. Burd. 

Children of the Shell. Murillo. 
Hansel and Gretel. 

Schlaraffenland. Reh-Dretor. 
Schlaraffenleben. Reh-Dretor. 

The First Step. Millet. 

Two Mothers and Their Families. 

Elizabeth Bouguereau. 

The Little Nurse. Von Bremen. 
Angels on Watch. Rehm-Victor. 
Angels on Guard. Rehm-Victor. 
Flight of Pigeons. Von Botelmann. 
Feeding Time. Casperi. 

Madonna of the Arbor. Dagnan- 
Bouveret. 

The Child Handel. Dicksee. 

The Mother’s Care. Israels. 

1'he Fairy Pool. J. IV. Smith. 

The Children’s Hour. Taylor. 

The Knitting Lesson. Millet. 

St. Anthony of Padua. Murillo. 

The Age of Innocence. Reynolds. 

Mother and Child. Brush. 

Mother and Child. Melchers. 
Bringing Home the New-Born Calf. 
Millet. 

Madonna, Infant Jesus and St. John. 
Botticelli. 

Madonna Gran Duca. Raphael. 
Feeding Her Birds. Millet. 

Cat and Kittens. Adam. 

Supper Time. Klumpke. 

The Helping Hand. Renouf. 

Dignity and Impudence. Landseer. 
The Divine Shepherd. Murillo. 

The Train—“Here It Comes.” Birney. 
Hiawatha. Norris. 

Children of the Shell. Murillo. 


Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos, Reinthal. 
Perry. 

Reinthal. 

Institute, 10c. 


Cosmos. 

Institute, 10c. 

Perry, Elson, $1.00. 
Atkinson, $2.00 (colored). 
Atkinson, $1.50 (colored). 
Atkinson, $1.50 (colored). 
Perry. 

Perry. 

Stechert, $1.20 (colored). 
Stechert, $1.20 (colored). 
Stechert, 75c (colored). 
Stechert, $1.35 (colored). 


Curtis, Cosmos, $1.25 to $2.50. 
Curtis, 50c to $1.25. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00. ' 

Elson, $3.00 (colored), Elson, $1.00. 
Perry. 

Elson, Perry, $3.00 (colored) ; 

Elson, $1.00; Institute, 10c. 
Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Detroit, $5.00. 

Elson, Perry, $5.00. 

Elson, Perry, $5.00. 

Elson, Perry, $1.00. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, Cosmos, $1.00. 

Perry, Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $2.00 (colored). 

Perry. 


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The Divine Shepherd. Murillo. Elson, $1.00. 

The Nursery. Waterlow. 

Fairy Tales. Jessie Willcox Smith. Reinthal, 25c. 

The Green Door. Jessie Willcox 
Smith. Reinthal, 25c. 

In the Garden. Jessie Willcox Smith. Reinthal, 25c. 

The Lily Pond. Jessie Willcox 

Smith. Reinthal, 25c. 

Bedtime. Jessie Willcox Smith. Reinthal, 25c. 


FOR SCHOOL 

Angel with Lute. Carpaccio. 

The Lord Is My Shepherd. Taylor. 
Religion. Pearce. 

Nathan Hale Statue. McMonnies. 
Repose in Egypt. Merson. 

The Little Scholar. Bouguereau. 

The Pet Bird. Von Bremen. 

Spring. Knaus. 

The Music Lesson. Leighton. 

The Chorister Boys. Anderson. 

The Foundling Girls. Anderson. 
Visiting Day at the Hospital. Geof- 

f r °y • . . 

Composition Day. Geoffroy. 

Lessons in Boat Building. Bacon. 

For These Mercies God’s Name Be 
Praised. Arnold. 

Rainbow. Viese. 

Pilgrims Going to Church. Bough- 
ton. 

Christ Among the Lowly. Boughton. 
The Voice of the Falls. Couse. 
Children Are a Heritage from the 
Lord. Taylor. 

“I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the 
Hills.” Taylor. 

Automedon with the Horses of 
Achilles. Regnault. 

Mother and Daughter. Le Brun. 

The Torn Hat. Sully. 

The Edict of William the Testy. 

Boughton. 

Alice. Chase. 

The Enchanted Wood. Couse. 

The Broken Pitcher. Greuze. 
Mischief. Kendall. 

The Strawberry Girl. Reynolds. 


CHILDREN 

Elson, $5.00. 

Gross, $1.50 (colored). 

Curtis, $1.00; Detroit, 50c. 

Cosmos. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Stechert, $1.80 (colored). 

Stechert, $1.80 (colored). 

Perry, 7c; Elson, $3.50 (colored); 

Curtis, $2.50; Cosmos. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Curtis, $2.50 to $5.00. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00; Gross, $1.50 
(colored). 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00; Gross, $1.50. 

Curtis, $2.50; Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 
Reinthal, $4.00 (colored) ; Detroit, 
$6.00 (colored). 

Elson, $3.00 (colored). 

Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Detroit, $6.00 (colored). 

Detroit, $6.00 (colored). 

Detroit, $10.00 (colored). 

Elson, Perry, $5.00. 


Pictures for Children and Young People 


Oxen Going to Labor. Troyon. 

The Spirit of 1776. Willard. 

Queen Louise and Her Two Sons. 
Steffeck. 

The Judgment of Paris. Gardner. 
The Contented Flock. Bonheur. 

The Horse Fair. Bonheur. 

School in Brittany. Geoffroy. 
Columbus at Salamanca. Barabino. 
Visiting Day at the Hospital. Geof¬ 
froy. 

At the Watering Trough. Bouveret. 
Return to the Farm. Millet. 
Grandpa’s Advice. Guillou. 

Sheep, Autumn. Mauve. 

Columbus at the Court of Spain. 
Brosik. 

Last Moments of John Brown. Hov- 
enden. 

Young Bonaparte. Dumas. 

Cave of the Winds and Rock of Ages, 
Niagara Falls. 

The Lion’s Cubs. Poynter. 

The Sailor’s Return. Rosenthal. 
Joseph Revealing His Dream to His 
Brethren. Tissot. 

Isumbras at the Ford. Millais. 

The Doctor. Fildes. 

St. Ursula’s Dream. Carpaccio. 

The Lion of Lucerne. Thorwaldsen. 
Faithful Unto Death. Poynter. 
Lincoln. Borglum. 

The Nativity (London). Botticelli. 
Cinderella. Dulac. 

Dreamland. Pearse. 

Air Castles. Parrish. 

Yankee Doodle. Willard. 

Young Raleigh. Millais. 

When Did You Last See Your 
Father? Yeames. 

The Never-Ending Prayer. Maes. 
Peter Pan. 

Making the First Flag. Mosler. 

Drums of the Fore and Aft. Stats. 
The Boy with a Sword. Manet. 


Elson, $1.00. 
Elson, $5.00. 

Elson, $5.00. 
Cosmos. 

Perry, Cosmos. 
Perry, Cosmos. 
Cosmos. 
Cosmos. 

Cosmos, Perry. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 


Tissot. 


Hanfstangl. 

Perry, Cosmos. 

Detroit, 5c. 

Prang, $2.00. 

Institute. 

Gross, $1.00 (colored). 
Gross, $1.50 (colored). 
Gross, 50c (colored). 
Taylor, $1.00 (colored). 

Detroit, 5c. 

Detroit. 

Institute. 

Institute. 

Institute. 

Detroit, $3.00 to $5.00. 


FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AT HIGH SCHOOL AGE 

Galahad the Deliverer. Abbey. Curtis, $2.00 to $7.50. 

The Oath of Knighthood. Abbey. Curtis, 60c to $7.50. 

The Round Table of King Arthur. 

■Abbey. Curtis, $2.50 up. 


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192 


Young Folks’ Directory 


The Castle of the Maidens. Abbey. 
Washington Laying Down His Com¬ 
mission. Blashfield. 

Psyche. Kendall. 

General Sherman. St. Gaudens. 
Hanging of the Crane. Taylor. 

Old Clock on the Stairs. Taylor. 
Sweet and Low. Taylor. 

When I Consider Thy Heavens. 
Tay lor. 

Portrait of the Artist’s Mother. 
Whistler. 

The Gleaners. Millet. 

The Angelus. Millet. 

The Omnipresent. Rosencrantz. 

The Delphic Sibyl. Michel Angelo. 

Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial. 
French. 

The Aztec Bride. Leigh. 

The Creation of Man. Michel Angelo. 
The Road to Camelot. Boughton. 
Robert Louis Stevenson. St. Gau¬ 
dens. 

The Light of the World. Hunt. 

The Prophets of Hope. Sargent. 
Love and Death. Watts. 

The Knight’s Dream. Raphael. 

“And the Sea Gave Up the Dead 
Which Were in It.” Leighton. 
Supper at Emmaus. Rembrandt. 

The Happy Warrior. Watts. 

Hope. Watts. 

Breaking Home Ties. Hovenden. 
Equestrian Statue of Colleoni. Ver¬ 
rocchio. 

Rebekah Goes to Isaac. Taylor. 
Heracles Wrestling with Death for 
the Body of Alcestis. Leighton. 
Christ or Diana. Long. 

Victory of Samothrace. 

The Burgomasters. Rembrandt. 
Cumaean Sibyl. Redder. 

The Spinner. Millet. 

The Shepherdess Knitting. Millet. 

By the River. Lerolle. 

The Shepherdess. Lerolle. 

Victorious Joan of Arc. Scherrer. 

A Shower. Laugee. 


Curtis, $2.00 up. 

Curtis, $5.00. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Curtis, $3.20 up. 

Curtis, 25c to $5.00. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $5.00. 

Curtis, $1.25 to $2.00. 

Reinthal, $4.00 (colored) ; Cosmos, 
Perry, Elson, $1.00. 

Perry, Reinthal, $4.00 (colored) ; 

Elson, $1.00; Cosmos. 

Perry, Reinthal, $4.00 (colored) ; 

Elson, $1.00; Cosmos. 

Cosmos, Reinthal, $1.00. 

Perry, Elson, $5.00 (colored); 

$ 1 . 00 . 

Elson, $1.00. 

Institute, 10c. 

Hanfstangl. 


Perry. 

Curtis, 50c to $4.50; Detroit, $1.25. 
Taylor, $1.00 (colored). 


Curtis, $2.50 to $5.00. 
Stokes, Hollyer. 

Turner, $10.00. 

Cosmos. 

Gross, $1.00 (colored). 

Wilde. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Perry, Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 


Pictures for Children and Young People 


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The Last Prayer. Gerome. 

Ave Caesar Imperator. Gerome. 
Captive Andromache. Leighton. 
Greek Girls Playing Ball. Leighton. 
The Princes in the Tower. Millais. 
John Alden and Priscilla. Boughton. 
The Child in the Temple. Hunt. 
Huguenot Lovers. Millais. 

The Shadow of Death. Hunt. 

The Fighting Temeraire. Turner. 
Hailing the Ferry. Knight. 

Appeal to the Great Spirit. Dallin. 
Religious Procession in Brittany. 
Breton. 

The Man With the Hoe. Millet. 
Apollo Belvidere (Head). 
Assumption of the Virgin. Titian. 
The Soul’s Awakening. Sant. 

The Storm. Cot. 

The Coming Storm. Inness. 

The Valley of the Shadow. Inness. 
The Bashful Suitor. Israels. 
Lachrymae. Leighton. 

The Song of the Lark. Breton. 

King Arthur. Vischer. 

Pilgrims Going to Church. Bough- 
ton v 

Columbus at the Court of Isabella. 
Brozik. 

The Minute Man. French. 

Joan of Arc Hearing the Voices. 

Bastien-Lepage. 

Her Tribute. Kline. 

Hay Wain. Constable. 

Evangeline. Faed. 

Charity. Thayer. 

The Golden Stairs. Burne-Jones. 
The Light of the World. Keble Col¬ 
lege. 

Hope. Burne-Jones. 

The Pot of Basil. Alexander. 

The Laughing Cavalier. Hals. 

Santa Barbara. Palma Vecchio. 
Swift and Stella. Dicksee. 

The Court of King Lear. Abbey. 
The Last Token; A Christian Mar¬ 
tyr. Max. 


Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Cosmos. 

Perry (7c), Cosmos. 
Cosmos, Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Taylor, $1.00 (colored). 
Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Detroit, $5.00. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 
Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 
Detroit, $1.25 to $5.00. 
Detroit, $3.00 to $5.00. 
Detroit, $5.00. 

Elson, $3.00. 

Elson, $1.00; Cosmos. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $5.00. 

Elson, $5.00. 

Elson, $5.00. 

Elson, $1.00. 

Elson, $1.00 (colored). 
Cosmos. 

Detroit, $1.25, $5.00; Perry. 
Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Cosmos. 

Elson, $5.00. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Detroit. 


Detroit, $5.00. 






































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